Tutorial Proposal for WWW95

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Fri, 16 Feb 1996 12:45:55 +0100

I have looked at the tutorial subjects of previous WWW conferences
(2nd 3rd and 4th) and did not see a tutorial on robots and search engines.

So I have written a proposal for a tutorial at WWW95, entitled
"Finding Web Information using Search Engines, Index Databases and Robots."

The tutorial will cover robot technology (including the robot exclusion
protocol, which the next version of our own robot will obey)
and the technology used by popular search engines and index databases.

Systems that will certainly be presented are ALIWEB, JumpStation, WWWWorm,
Yahoo, Tradewave Galaxy, WebCrawler, Lycos, Infoseek, Alta Vista.

Suggestions for other systems to review are welcome.

But what I would like most is information on how some of these systems
work, apart from what can be found on their Web sites and in WWW conference
papers. I'm already giving tutorials on this subject, but for the WWW
conference I would like to receive information first-hand, from reliable
sources.

All help is welcome to make this tutorial a success (should it be accepted,
which of course remains to be seen).

Please send info to debra@win.tue.nl

Thanks a lot.

Paul.