Re: search engine

Rob Turk (rturk@austin.ibm.com)
Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:51:12 -0500


Jose Raul Vaquero Pulido wrote:
>
> Hi everybody:
> First, sorry for my bad english.

That's okay!

> I study the use of the search engine, its effectivite, etc. Now,
> I am looking for shareware of search engine that running on Unix or
> Windows platform. Anyone know where can I find shareware about it?

Check out some info first:

http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/
http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/braustubl/
http://thule.mt.cs.cmu.edu:8001/webants/
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/agents
http://www.media.mit.edu/

I've been able to find interesting stuff at these web sites.

> Also, I am looking for statistics of use information in the most
> important search engine (how long do visitors usually stay on its site?, > where are visitors coming form and what content are they looking?,> etc.).

You'll have to ask someone else. Here's some popular spider-type URLs:

ALTA VISTA:
http://www.altavista.digital.com/

EXCITE:
http://www.excite.com/

LYCOS
http://www.lycos.com/

WEBCRAWLER:
http://www.webcrawler.com/

The World Wide Web Worm -- http://guano.cs.colorado.edu/wwww/

YAHOO:
http://www.yahoo.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web/

> ** Jose Raul Vaquero Pulido > ** Universidad de Salamanca

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