Searching The Web Workshop
Lakewood Library Technology Center
Instructor: Ed Rossman


Crawlers


altavista logo

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 logo

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.



 
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