Re: defining "robot"

Erik Selberg (selberg@cs.washington.edu)
24 Nov 1996 14:44:25 -0800


m.koster@webcrawler.com (Martijn Koster) 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.

So does this mean you'll put MetaCrawler in your list of robots? Way
back when I think you deemed it "inappropriate for the list" or
something. :)

-Erik

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