[1435] in java-interest
Re: JavaCrawler now operational
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Young)
Fri Sep 1 21:11:43 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 17:29:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>
To: Erik Selberg <speed@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: hotjava-interest@java.sun.com, java-interest@java.sun.com,
selberg@cs.washington.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509011940.MAA25032@meitner.cs.washington.edu>
I like it... It did a better job than a lot of the standard search engines
Keep up the good work!
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Justin Young Student
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(504)-771-4070 justiny@engr.subr.edu
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On Fri, 1 Sep 1995, Erik Selberg wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I've finally managed to get a prototype of the MetaCrawler working
> under Java! Please check it out at:
>
> http://metacrawler.cs.washingotn.edu:8080
>
> What is the MetaCrawler?
>
> The MetaCrawler is a multi-threaded web search engine. Users give the
> MetaCrawler a query, and it then submits that query to various Web
> engines, such as WebCrawler and Lycos. It then collates the results,
> and optionally loads all pages returned to ensure their accessibility
> as well as validating they contain useful information.
>
> The JavaCrawler, now available, is a Java prototype supporting
> mimicing the MetaCrawler. One substantial improvement over the
> MetaCrawler is that the JavaCrawler doesn't use the MetaCrawler as a
> middle-man; using the JavaCrawler, user queries are submitted directly to
> search engines, rather than going through the MetaCrawler. This can be
> of great benefit to reduce overall load, especially for people
> connecting from remote sites to Washington.
>
> Feedback and Bug Reports are welcome.
>
> Cheers!
> -Erik Selberg
> http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/selberg
>
>
>
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