Searching The Web Workshop
Lakewood Library Technology Center
Instructor: Ed Rossman
Crawlers
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Alta Vista
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Crawler / Former partnered web site for Yahoo
Alta Vista is a crawler formally partnered with Yahoo up until Spring
of 1998. They categorize web sites in areas called zones, that they
have divided out by careers, finance, health, and news, among others,
and they also offer a variety of different services as well. You
can find a business through them, they offer free e-mail, there's a good
section on maps, and they are also one of the first web sites to offer
a language translation service!
You can take a paragraph in French or German or Spanish, put it into
their search engine and it will automatically translate it for you into
English, or English into another one of the five main Romance languages;
this is an extremely useful service as far as being able to read foreign
web pages. Despite focusing on European languages, they are offering
another international section; they're creating a search network where
you can search in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, developing an international
audience for their services.
HotBot is a search engine run by Wired magazine, a leading New Technology
publication, and is a good portal service; it offers a variety of different
services and is one of the largest databases on the Internet as far as
their index of URLs are concerned. It's a crawler service and they've
cataloged millions of web sites.
