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Date:      Wed, 12 Nov 1997 15:10:35 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com>
Cc:        Mark Segal <mark@club-web.com>, marcin@v-m.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WWW Search Engine
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971112150928.26948A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <87vhxxg1nv.fsf@absinthe.i3inc.com>

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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.




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