robot-id: smartspider robot-name: Smart Spider robot-cover-url: http://www.travel-finder.com robot-details-url: http://www.engsoftware.com/robots.htm robot-owner-name: Ken Wadland robot-owner-url: http://www.engsoftware.com robot-owner-email: ken@engsoftware.com robot-status: active robot-purpose: indexing robot-type: standalone robot-platform: windows95, windowsNT robot-availability: data, binary, source robot-exclusion: Yes robot-exclusion-useragent: ESI robot-noindex: Yes robot-host: 207.16.241.* robot-from: Yes robot-useragent: ESISmartSpider/2.0 robot-language: C++ robot-description: Classifies sites using a Knowledge Base. Robot collects web pages which are then parsed and feed to the Knowledge Base. The Knowledge Base classifies the sites into any of hundreds of categories based on the vocabulary used. Currently used by: //www.travel-finder.com (Travel and Tourist Info) and //www.golightway.com (Christian Sites). Several options exist to control whether sites are discovered and/or classified fully automatically, full manually or somewhere in between. robot-history: Feb '96 -- Product design begun. May '96 -- First data results published by Travel-Finder. Oct '96 -- Generalized and announced and a product for other sites. Jan '97 -- First data results published by GoLightWay. robot-environment: service, commercial modified-date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:41:00 EST modified-by: Ken Wadland