Hello, Does anyone know of a way, or even if it is possible, to have Squid interfaced to the Glimpse webbot, or any webbot or spider? Or directly coupled to the Glimpse search engine?
I am working on a proof of concept to see if I can couple the Glimpse/Harvest distributed search engine to Squid. The idea is to have a Squid caching server setup at a school and have the search engine spider/webbot gather information based on a learning plan defined by a teacher and feed this data into Squid. Then Harvest engine would perform it's queries on the Squid server and found would point to data resident in Squid cache. I see this as a way to minimize bandwidth usage in remote school systems where bandwidth is so costly, but also as an attempt to optimize the Internet as a learning tool. This would not be like trying to inject raw stream data into squid, since the webbot would have urls for all data it would be storing in squid. Then the next step is to develop a system that would create personalized, topic specific portfolios for each student based on what part of the 'learning plan' they are in. So, whenever they logged into the system, they would be presented with an updated portfolio on their subject topic (or topics). Hope this makes sense, Murrah Boswell
