Querying Internet Search Indexes by Email
ftp to: ftp.netcom.com
cd to pub/gb/gboyd
Gerald Boyd has spent much time learning the internal syntax of web search
engines. He has made the fruits of his labor available at an ftp site.
Interested Internauts can download FAQs on how to query fifteen generic
and eight specialty search engines by email. Included are Alta Vista,
Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, Infoseek, OKRA, Open Text, SwitchBoard, TheList,
and others. Also included is a FAQ on how to use an Agora Server to use
the web by email. See the Scout Report for March 8, 1996, along with the
discussion of Dr. Bob Rankin's _The Whole Internet...By E-Mail_, in the
Scout Toolkit (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout/toolkit/3d7.html) for more on
Agora. The FAQs are of greatest use to those without a web connection, but
are also interesting to anyone who is intrigued by the intricacies of
search engines. Users should download wsintro.faq (table of contents of
FAQs), wscrack.faq (basic strategy for figuring out how to query search
indexes via email) and wshelp.faq (Agora help file) before any others. For
those who would like to download everything at once, wssearch.zip contains
all of the files. Note that while these files are fairly technical, they
are very useful for those who need such Internet access.
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