robot-id: search_au robot-name: Search.Aus-AU.COM robot-details-url: http://Search.Aus-AU.COM/ robot-cover-url: http://Search.Aus-AU.COM/ robot-owner-name: Dez Blanchfield robot-owner-url: not currently available robot-owner-email: dez@geko.com robot-status: - development: robot under development robot-purpose: - indexing: gather content for an indexing service robot-type: - standalone: a separate program robot-platform: - mac - unix - windows95 - windowsNT robot-availability: - none robot-exclusion: yes robot-exclusion-useragent: Search-AU robot-noindex: yes robot-host: Search.Aus-AU.COM, 203.55.124.29, 203.2.239.29 robot-from: no robot-useragent: not available robot-language: c, perl, sql robot-description: Search-AU is a development tool I have built to investigate the power of a search engine and web crawler to give me access to a database of web content ( html / url's ) and address's etc from which I hope to build more accurate stats about the .au zone's web content. the robot started crawling from http://www.geko.net.au/ on march 1st, 1998 and after nine days had 70mb of compressed ascii in a database to work with. i hope to run a refresh of the crawl every month initially, and soon every week bandwidth and cpu allowing. if the project warrants further development, i will turn it into an australian ( .au ) zone search engine and make it commercially available for advertising to cover the costs which are starting to mount up. --dez (980313 - black friday!) robot-environment: - hobby: written as a hobby modified-date: Fri Mar 13 10:03:32 EST 1998