Arquivo.pt main goal is the preservation and access of web contents that are no longer available online. During the developing of the PWA IR (information retrieval) system we faced limitations in searching speed, quality of results, scalability and usability. To cope with this, we modified the archive-access project (http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/) to support our web archive IR requirements. Nutchwax, Nutch and Wayback’s code were adapted to meet the requirements. Several optimizations were added, such as simplifications in the way document versions are searched and several bottlenecks were resolved. The PWA search engine is a public service at http://archive.pt and a research platform for web archiving. As it predecessor Nutch, it runs over Hadoop clusters for distributed computing following the map-reduce paradigm. Its major features include fast full-text search, URL search, phrase search, faceted search (date, format, site), and sorting by relevance and date. The PWA search engine is highly scalable and its architecture is flexible enough to enable the deployment of different configurations to respond to the different needs. Currently, it serves an archive collection searchable by full-text with 180 million documents ranging between 1996 and 2010.
Users that know IA SavePageNow may get confused with ours because it works differently, for instance Arquivo.pt does not support downloading data to the user's computer.
"Save" suggests that the user will download the result but Arquivo.pt Save Page Now saves the page only in the web archive.
Some users were confused with the Arquivo.pt camera icon, and wondered if a screen capture was being done.
Having the same name for a service as a worldwide and older service is bad for SEO because Arquivo.pt will hardly be displayed in the top result.
dcgomes
commented
2 months ago
Arquivo.pt SavePageNow has the same name of Internet Archive SavePageNow. However, they work differently. They have different UIs, workflows and features.
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