Re: BOUNCE robots: Admin request

Nick Arnett (narnett@Verity.COM)
Sun, 26 Nov 1995 18:28:33 -0800


At 10:08 AM 11/8/95, <owner-robots@webcrawler.com> wrote:

>Whereas lots of robots don't. Obviously it is recursive in that you
>do pull urls out of pages and eventually follow them, but it doesn't
>feel recursive. The 'fuzzy' stuff is a complete red herring - except
>for the special case of 'fuzzy logic' (not what's being done here) the
>word 'fuzzy' in the information retrieval context is a marketing term
>without semantic content.

Minor point -- let's not assume that no one on the list is using fuzzy
logic to decide which links to follow. After all, some of us have search
engines that use fuzzy logic operators. I'm fascinated by using evidential
reasoning to build agents that explore.

Nick