Re: Robots in the client?

Ricardo Eito Brun (x8035952@fedro.ugr.es)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 12:34:06 +0100


Thanks for your information:
I have tried to locate this two robots; I haven't
found anything about Simon, and Fish Search seems to
have become a robot in the same sense as Lycos, Infoseek,
etc.., of course with less coverage.

Could you tell me how to contact with information about
SIMON? If possible I would be grateful if you may correct
me: I think a personal robot is a kind of search engine
that resides in our own personal computer, that's to say,
I give the application a set of URL's adress and it gather
html files from these sites. After that it builds a local
database with these data. Is it all right? If it's, when
we speak about MOMSpider (freely distributed), can we consider this robot in the
same sense and categorize it as a personal robot?.

Thank in advance.

There was a program called SIMON which worked with Mosaic for X-Windows.

The Fish Search was built into a version of Mosaic by Paul De Bra
(debra@win.tue.nl)

I never used either, but I did some research myself about a year ago.

Bonnie Scott
Prodigy Services Company

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> I'm trying to recover exhaustive information
> about robots which can run in oun client WWW browsers.
> I have only read something about Arachnidus?. If you
> can give me some information about some other application
> or about the performance of such a tools, I would be
> gratefull.
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