RE: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Matthew Meadows
Regarding this: What's there to invent after Google? Quite a lot, actually. Google has built a magnificent search portal for the Internet, but there's still room in the market for companies like Inktomi, Verity, DTSearch, AltaVista, and dozens of others big and small. The reason is that se

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
I think I remember those proposals, actually. I have never hear anyone mention them anywhere else, so I don't think anyone has implemented a crawler that looks for those new things in robots.txt Otis --- Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I was surprised to recen

RE: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Brian Broderick
Where are your proposals located? -Original Message- From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner [mailto:spc@;conman.org] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Robots] Post Well, I was surprised to recently find that O'Reilly has mentioned me in their book

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
Well, I was surprised to recently find that O'Reilly has mentioned me in their book _HTTP: The Definitive Guide_; seems they mentioned my propsed draft extentions to the Robot Exclusion Protocol [1] although I'm not sure what they said about it (my friend actually found the reference in O'Reilly

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Maddox
Hi Michel, >tractable way of generating useful web indexes. So far NLP has shown >to be too time consuming and error-prone for a task this size >(correct me if I'm wrong! NLP is not really my area). Ontology use Certainly a lot of NLP systems that currently exist were not made for highly symmetr

RE: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Sounds interesting. I'd love to see some screenshots of some community graphs and main characters in itpossible? Otis --- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as we're kicking around what's new, here's mine. I've been > working > on a system that finds topical Internet discussion

RE: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Nick Arnett
As long as we're kicking around what's new, here's mine. I've been working on a system that finds topical Internet discussions (web forums, usenet, mailing lists) and does some analysis of who's who, looking for the people who connect communities together, lead discussions, etc. At the moment, it

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Andrew Daviel
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Paul Maddox wrote: > Hi all, > > Wow, someone posted something! > > How many subscribers are there? What's everyone working on at the > moment? I've been working, very slowly, on a geographic search engine and geo-enhanced http. A demo is at geotags.com Since it depends on

Re: [Robots] semantic markup

2002-11-08 Thread thomas.kay
Form: Reply Text: (51 lines follow) Human Resources Développement des ressources Development Canada humaines Canada __ Anyone working on a robot that marks up ( semantic web style ) crawled content and makes it available to

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Tim Bray
Paul Maddox wrote: As an AI programmer specialising in NLP, personally I'd like to see web bots actually 'understanding' the content they review, rather than indexing by brute force. How about the equivalent of Dmoz or Yahoo Directory, but generated by a web spider? Which as a side-effect coul

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Michel Leonard Goldstein
Hey Paul,     Great that somebody is trying to get this group moving again!     I agree with you that there is still a lot to be done in 'understanding' web pages. I'm especially hopeful that the "Semantic Web" initiative will, in a not-too-long run, give us a more tractable way of generating

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Maddox
Hi, I'm sure even Google themselves would admit there there's scope for improvement. With Answers, Catalogs, Image Search, News, etc, etc, they seem to be quite busy! :-) As an AI programmer specialising in NLP, personally I'd like to see web bots actually 'understanding' the content they rev

Re: [Robots] Post

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Maddox
Hi all, Wow, someone posted something! How many subscribers are there? What's everyone working on at the moment? To answer your question Rick, go to the URL below. Paul. On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:18:01 -0800 (PST), Rick Beacham wrote: >Sign me UP!! > >___