The technology is called ACAP, which stands for "automated content access protocol," and has been developed by a consortium of media trade organizations, including the European Publishers Council, the International Publishers Association and the...
The publishers desire for "proposed extensions, known as Automated Content Access Protocol, partly grew out of those disputes. The current system doesn't give sites "enough flexibility to express our terms and conditions on access and use of...
Content Access Protocol" that they feel will head off conflicts with search engines. Several mostly print publisher groups say they are to test a new "Automated Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
A detailed plan for this project provisionally called ACAP (for Automated Content Access Protocol) – is currently in development. Automated Content Access Protocol The new project, ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol), is an automated...
The most common method is by using the robots.txt file protocol. Don't do automated queries. This session lived up to its reputation of providing information straight from the source and granted the audience direct access to representatives of the...
The program can even be used to submit URLs to AltaVista from sites that block search engine crawlers with the robots.txt protocol. This has been done because AltaVista found that the vast majority of automated submissions were for low quality pages.
Part of the protocol says that robots should identify themselves to web servers the visit, offering both name and IP address, and preferably the name of a contact person who can check a misbehaving robot.
A new study says that, despite the claims of some, faster wireless access won't overcome the shortcomings of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). It's important to keep in mind that search engines are created by automated software, whereas...
