World wide web robots: an overview
Tham Yoke Chun
(Senior Head of the Information Technology Training Branch, Educational Technology Division, Ministry of Education, Singapore)
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Abstract
This paper traces the development of World Wide Web Robots and provides an overview of their main functions and workings. The focus is on search robots and illustrations will be drawn from two major search engines: AltaVista and Excite. In the concluding section, prblems associated with the use of Web Robots and their implications for electronic publishing will be examined.
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Citation
Yoke Chun, T. (1999), "World wide web robots: an overview", Online and CD-Rom Review, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 135-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/14684529910334047
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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