Veronica_(computer)

For other uses, see Veronica.

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Veronica is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol, developed in 1992 by Steven Foster and Fred Barrie at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of Gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major Gopher menus.

The name, although officially an acronym for "Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computer Archives", was chosen to match that of the FTP search service known as Archie — Veronica Lodge being the name of another character from the Archie Comics.

Veronica-2

Veronica-2 is a complete rewrite of Veronica by Cameron Kaiser. As of July 2007, its index contained 520,000 selectors. [1]

See also

• Jughead - an alternative search engine system for the Gopher protocol.
• Archie - a search engine for finding FTP files.

External links

• Hal3000 Veronica (Based on local-veronica)
• gopher.dna.affrc.go.jp (Only indexes one server)
• local-veronica source

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