Are web searching tools WAIS-based?

[Jian Liu]

> 
> 	The title pretty much says it all.  I'd like to know whether web 
> searching tools are WAIS-based.  Or are certain tools WAIS-based, and 
> other not?  (If the latter case, which of the big ones are which?)

I would say most of them are not.  Open Text uses its own powerful
index and search engines.  Lycos and InfoSeek are new.  Harvest is
based on glimpse. WN is based on grep, I believe.  Swish is definitely
based on WAIS.  I think Isearch is too.  

Jian
Indiana University Libraries