Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders?

[Neil Ratzlaff <Neil.Ratzlaff () ucop edu>]

You might look at Verity (<http://www.verity.com/>www.verity.com).  When I
looked at it, I got the impression that you could set any boundaries you
wanted
to specify the hosts to search.

Neil


At 14:06 07/17/98 -0400, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote:
> We're looking to get some kind of a Web search engine that would walk
> our intranet/extranet/whatever inside its firewall boundaries, ignoring
> that Internet stuff outside the firewalls, and give us a way to search
> the whole intra-web from one place.  I had thought there were several
> announced products out there - Alta Vista, Excite, whatever.  Strangely,
> the only one we can find anything on is Alta Vista, and there is more
> info outside of DEC than in.  I also found references to an Open Source
> package called web-search, which sure sounds like it might be something
> like what we're looking for.  [Searching for a downloadable copy on
> sunsite as I write.]
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions / pointers / warnings of doom?
>
> Thanks.
>
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