Re: Preliminary robot.faq (Please Send Questions or Comments)

Keith Fischer (kfischer@mail.win.org)
Wed, 8 Nov 1995 03:30:45 -0600

>>1.1) What is a ROBOT?
>>
>> A Robot is a program that traverses the World Wide Web, gathering some
>>sort of information from each site it visits. This journey is accomplished
>>by visiting a web page and then recursively visiting all or some of it's
>>linked pages.
>
>True but misleading; there are much better strategies for covering
>the web than this kind of direct recursion.
>
>
>Cheers, Tim Bray, Open Text Corporation (tbray@opentext.com)

1.1) What is a ROBOT?

A Robot is a program that traverses the World Wide Web, gathering some
sort of information from each site it visits. This journey is accomplished
by visiting a web page and then visiting some or all of its linked pages.
The method one follows whether it's recursive or some sort of fuzzy logic
determines the effectivness of the search.

How is the above. If you like, this will be the new 1.1. Also, could you
please elaborate on better stratagies. (I'm assuming you are talking about
the fuzzy logic that Yahoo and Lycos use.)

Keith
kfischer@mail.win.org
kdf274s@nic.smsu.edu
Keith D. Fischer
kfischer@mail.win.org
kdf274s@nic.smsu.edu

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