WMS See wide area information servers. WAN See wide area network. Web See World Wide Web. A specific search engine developed by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington. It is a freeware program that 'roams' the World Wide Web and collects URLs.
Users can then perform searches by entering keywords.
A document on the World Wide Web. Such documents are used with browsers to display text and images, and to play sound, video or animation programs. Web page files contain HTML codes to control the display and playing of their associated components. Web search engines Systems that search the World Wide Web, index document contents, and permit keyword or full text searches. A computer program that receives and processes requests from client browsers.