From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 12 15:14:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA18970 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18964 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08347; Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:10:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:10:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Chris Shenton cc: Mark Segal , marcin@v-m.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW Search Engine In-Reply-To: <87vhxxg1nv.fsf@absinthe.i3inc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 12 Nov 1997, Chris Shenton wrote: > Now your question states "like InfoSeek". This implies a "robot" which > goes to remote web sites and pulls their data. Swish, wwwwais, > glimpse, and the other products mentioned here only do docs on the > local system. Perhaps glimpse can be configged to pull remote docs, I > haven't been interested in it since the Harvest Project died and > glimpse became licensed tech. (like gated and MERIT radius, but that's > another rant)-: both glimpse and htdig will index remote sites, but you'd have to tell it what sites to index.