Much of how you structure your Web site will be to befriend these robots, welcome them into your site, offer them something to drink and load them up with "relevant" information that they can take back to their home database.
Therefore the key in dealing with these big brands/sites seems to consist of training foremost and then putting forth the best effort to automate the entire process through template and database optimization.
All of the major search engine crawlers default to assuming you are intending to use the parameter to lookup different content from your site database. So a parameter on a URL can be used for tracking purposes, or it can be used for database lookup...
So here is the International Children's Digital Library, which is the specialty database with thousands of full textbooks for kids in different languages. So, it's a way for us to take a common search like children's books, and turn people on to...
Are you generating pages via CGI or database-delivery? Consider creating static pages whenever possible, perhaps using the database to update the pages, not to generate them on the fly. A query on a crawler-based search engine often turns up...
Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around eight billion web pages indexed. This is not new, but I wanted to share an incredible blog post from Jimmy Atkinson at Online Education Database.
Zoom Information, Inc.has developed a method of collecting data about people from the web, to present in a structured database to make searching for information about people easier. The ISEN system is a portal that comprehensively catalogs the...
Their PaperofRecord.com site is their public database where you can actually see what they have digitized to this point. For a long time I've said verticals will continue to grow in popularity and importance as meta search tools which are getting...
This database offers access to "scholarly literature" found on the open web in several disciplines including information technology, computer science, telecom, and more. Years before Google Scholar was launched, Professor Lee Giles, from Penn State...
The company also claims a deep web/Invisible Web/data mining angle saying that it can find material from a database of over 500 billion web pages including material from database. Teoma's technology now powers the AJ database and Dr.
That's the term Chris Sherman and Gary Price have helped popularize to discuss content locked behind database walls, inaccessible to regular spidering. Want to export your entire job database to Google and not afraid to do so, since you control the...
Of course, 50 years is also a long time (I just turned 40) but I'll again say that just having data in a large, often uncontrolled database, doesn't mean people will find it. In my opinion, there is a big difference between indexing content...
No doubt about it, web search makes things easier to find but the person who wants personal info is likely to have a database toolkit with hundreds if not thousands of free and fee-based tools to LEGALLY find what they're looking for.
I haven't personally seen the Glenbrook technology in action but I've been reading about similar types of automated deep web database extraction for many years. Extracting and repurposing all of raw info from a database, is it legal?
As Battelle correctly points out and I agree with 100 percent with, the personal info in the article is available either in Google's own database or legally, in specialized (Invisible Web and proprietary) databases.
Yahoo has released a new Yahoo Search Subscriptions (beta) service that unites regular web search results found from crawling the open web with listings from free and fee-based database services and publishers such as Factiva, LexisNexis, and...
Yahoo has released a new Yahoo Search Subscriptions (beta) service that unites regular web search results found from crawling the open web with listings from free and fee-based database services and publishers such as Factiva, LexisNexis, and...
Again, a specialized database might have just what they are looking for. Many times, assuming the searcher knows about the resource (here comes marketing again since people can't use what they don't know about), a searcher can get a good if not...
Database searching You can see and use subject headings and other parts of a catalog entry to refine your search when you use RedLightGreen, a database of over 120 million books. Finally, many large database providers have their own vocabularies...
There have been plenty of good offline database we haven't covered. Full Text Database: United Nations Official Document System Now Available. In my keynote, I also covered developments with invisible tabs information, my term for the idea that...
