The ''Probert Encyclopaedia'' is a defunct online
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
containing over 110,000 entries organized topically, written and published by Matthew Probert under the name Probert Publishing. It has unusual search functions which create pages containing the text of all the articles matching the search, rather than giving a list of results.
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showing example search result page for "Physics"
The ''Probert Encyclopaedia'' was first published in 1993 as a knowledgebase for artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
systems and has subsequently been developed to include the topics omitted by other encyclopaedias. It was available as downloadable freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the f ...
until the 18th edition, published in December 1998, when Probert reserved the rights of distribution after finding people had reproduced his work on their privately owned websites, without permission.
The encyclopedia is offline as of February 2015.
See also
*Lists of encyclopedias
For lists of encyclopedias, see:
* List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge
* List of encyclopedias by date
* List of encyclopedias by language
* List of online encyclopedias
See also
* Bibliography of encyclopedias
* List of almanacs
* List ...
*List of online encyclopedias
This is a list of well-known online encyclopedias—i.e., encyclopedias accessible or formerly accessible on the Internet.
The largest online encyclopedias are general reference works, though there are also many specialized ones. Some online ency ...
External links
''The Probert Encyclopaedia''
Internet Archive.
Saved pages showing its search results page
Internet Archive.
References
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British online encyclopedias