He also keeps a ragged out copy of "Cyberiad" by Stanislav Lem handy
when he needs good ideas about problems to solve and web pages to
improve.
Just kidding...
The book I have read half of and learned some from is "Internet Agents:
Spiders, Brokers, and Bots" by fellow UT Austin alum Fah-Chung Cheong.
Check out New Riders Publishing at http://www.mcp.com/newriders
It's ISBN # is 1-56205-463-5
It's a good intro, but most stuff can be found online. Search for
"robots" from any index site.
-- Rob Turk <mailto:rturk@austin.ibm.com> Unofficially Speaking. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard