ALIWEB, which stands for "Archie-Like Indexing for the WEB," is one of the earliest search engines created to index the World Wide Web. Developed in 1993, ALIWEB allowed website owners to submit their own site descriptions, which would then be indexed and made searchable. Unlike later search engines that relied heavily on crawlers to index web pages, ALIWEB depended on a more manual input method for gathering data about websites.
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