Re: defining "robot"

Martin Kiff (mgk@webfeet.co.uk)
Sun, 24 Nov 1996 07:03:59 +0100


Martijn writes...

>To me, a single page-watcher is not a robot. Whereas a metacrawler
>that parses search-engine results page, and validates links found
>there (repeatedly), is a robot.

But it is automatic - and should perhaps follow any wishes in a future
'robots.txt' on the rate of hits etc.

Regards,
Martin Kiff
mgk@webfeet.co.uk
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