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Needs some verification that a) `Wandex' was ever more than a list of URLs, b) it was possible to access `Wandex' `over the Web' for search purposes. Otherwise, it doesn't really justify the `first search engine' claim, although it may have been the first documented crawler. Credibly Witless ( talk) 13:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC) reply

According to The Search, How Google and its rivals rewrote business and transformed culture by John Battelle, "The Wanderer was a robot that automatically created an index of sites, and Gray hacked up a search interface that allowed users to search the index." (p.41) He goes on to quote Gray himself as saying: "It wasn't the greatest search engine that ever was, but it was the first search engine that ever was". So, what do we make of this???-- Evenmadderjon ( talk) 15:03, 28 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Would it be possible to add to this page a chart of the growth of the web as derived from Wandex data? 2A02:C7C:C48F:5C00:EC96:924A:DF90:C924 ( talk) 19:52, 1 November 2022 (UTC) reply