To quote Sherlock Holmes, "There is nothing new under the sun - it has all
been done before". Look at the old pathalias software - it did much the
same thing for UUCP.
> I'm a little surprised at all the people developing domain specific robots.
> It seems to me that it might be easier and more efficient to just query a
> large existing service like Alta Vista instead of indexing yourself.
One of the biggest reasons is that the domain isn't accessible to the
outside world. Another reason might be that the database of indexed web
pages must be updated on a more regular basis than Alta Vista does.
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