Brewster Kahle is the great librarian of the Internet. His company, Wais Inc., scanned and listed the content of computer servers, and was sold to America Online for $15 million. A second project, Alexa Internet, logged Internet traffic patterns and recommended sites. It went to Amazon for $250 million in 1999. He is a founder and leader of the Internet Archive, which stores a huge number of books, recordings and images for free access. His most recent project, Bookserver, is a distributed publishing, lending and sales tool for digital books. Kahle talked to Forbes’ Quentin Hardy about the Alexa Internet deal.
Note: The Alexa Internet crawl of the web is what feeds the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
See Also: Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Profiled in Forbes (November 4, 2009)
Source: Forbes
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