Re: robots that index comments

murray bent (murrayb@icis.qut.edu.au)
Tue, 26 Mar 96 10:56:28 -0800


>I was wondering, is it standard practice for most of the
>robots (Alta Vista, WebCrawler, etc), to index keywords

robots retrieve documents, its indexers that index documents.

To check how the larger indexing sites have done their job just
do an experiment - use the same query (say "Ford") on each of the sites and
look at the first documents returned with a weighting of 1.00000 .

A simple way to do this is use the metacrawler at :
http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080