Name: Duppies (rhymes with puppies)
Author: Larry Burke, AKTIV Software
Platform: Mac OS (considering Windows NT port)
User-Agent: Duppies/1.0
Purpose: Allows website administrator to provide searchable index of
their own site as well as other related sites. Has facilities to perform
timed updates. Performs several other utility functions. Includes
filtering system to limit indexing to files meeting specified criteria.
Single program performs robot function, text indexing, and search
processing either as a CGI or a stand-alone web server.
Important Note: It is our intention to make Duppies available
commercially to web administrators. Any comments on this would be
welcomed. We feel a large missing part of many web sites is the lack of a
site specific index (try finding anything at www.apple.com).
Status: Currently being implemented by the Government of British
Columbia to index all the official ministry sites.
Supports Robot Exclusion standard: Yes, and we have implemented all the
other robot niceties we could think of (and read "Internet Agents" by
Fah-Chun Cheong). I have been following this list since July or August.
For more information visit "http://www.aktiv.com/duppies/duppies.html".
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Larry Burke
AKTIV Software
Victoria, B.C.
email: lburke@aktiv.com
phone: 604.383.4195