Editing Archie (search engine) (section)

==Development ==
Emtage and Heelan wrote a script allowing people to log in and search collected information using the [[Telnet]] protocol at the host "archie.mcgill.ca" [132.206.2.3].<ref name="peter">{{cite web |title=Peter Deutsch: archie - An Electronic Directory Service for the Internet |url=http://www1.chapman.edu/gopher-data/archives/Internet%20Information/whatis.archie |access-date=2012-02-23}}</ref> Later, more efficient front- and back-ends were developed, and the system spread from a local tool to a network-wide resource and a popular service available from multiple sites around the [[Internet]]. The collected data would be exchanged between the neighbouring Archie servers. The servers could be accessed in multiple ways: using a local client (such as ''archie'' or ''xarchie''); [[telnet]]ting to a server directly; sending queries by [[electronic mail]];<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.cs.duke.edu/csl/docs/EFF_Guide/eeg_139.html|title=EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Your Friend Archie|website=www2.cs.duke.edu|access-date=2020-01-08|date=12 September 1994}}</ref> and later via a [[World Wide Web]] interface. At the peak of its popularity, the Archie search engine accounted for 50% of Montreal Internet traffic.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Archie-a Darwinian development process  |date=2000 |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/815865 |access-date=2023-12-14 |doi=10.1109/4236.815865 |last1=Deutsch |first1=P. |journal=IEEE Internet Computing |volume=4 |pages=69–71 }}</ref>

In 1992, Emtage, along with [[J. Peter Deutsch]] and some financial help from McGill University, formed [[Bunyip Information Systems]] with a licensed commercial version of the Archie search engine used by millions of people worldwide. Heelan followed them into Bunyip soon after, where he together with [[Bibi Ali]] and Sandro Mazzucato significantly updated the Archie database and indexed web pages. Work on the search engine ceased in the late 1990s, and the company dissolved in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Canada Business Listing |url=https://www.can1business.com/ |access-date=2024-05-13 |website=CAN1 Business |language=en}}</ref>