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Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders?
From: "Bruce B. Platt" <Bruce.Platt () comport com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:34:48 -0400
At 02:06 PM 7/17/98 -0400, Joseph S. D. Yao wrote: We have found AltaVista Search to be useful and flexible in both the NT and Digital Unix versions. One can set a variety of options for aggressiveness of search, starting points, include and exclude rules, and so forth. You can set it up to traverse your intranet and some selected external-to-your zone sites. (Not to be used to duplicate tghe indices at altavista.digital.com.) Regards ->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. -> ->-- ->Joe Yao jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao ->COSPO Computer Support EMT-A/B ->----------------------------------------------------------------------- ->This message is not an official statement of COSPO policies. -> -> -> +---------------------------------------------------------+ Bruce B. Platt, Ph.D. Vice-President Comport Consulting Corporation 78 Orchard Street Ramsey, NJ 07446 Phone: 201-236-0505 Fax: 201-236-1335 bbp () comport com, bruce.platt () comport com, bruce () comport com
Current thread:
- Web search engines / robots / spiders? Joseph S. D. Yao (Jul 19)
- Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders? Amos Hayes (Jul 20)
- Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders? John Lines (Jul 20)
- Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders? Neil Ratzlaff (Jul 20)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Web search engines / robots / spiders? Bruce B. Platt (Jul 21)