DARPA rolled out its Memex program to move forward the state of the art in content indexing and web searching on the Internet.
Over the next few years, the Memex program yielded new tools that enabled quick and thorough organization of a subset of the Internet, leading to more comprehensive and relevant domain-specific indexing of web content and domain-specific search capabilities.
Memex quickly proved its value in efforts to counter human trafficking. Human trafficking is a line of business with significant web presence to attract customers and is relevant to many types of military, law enforcement, and intelligence investigations.
The use of forums, chats, advertisements, job postings, hidden services, etc., continues to enable a growing industry of modern slavery. Identifying technology counterfeiting operations is another of many applications that Memex could help mitigate.
