Re: Internet search engines and databases

That's right sir! Database driven is the key and that's the challenge to capture the dynamic contents from each site. This is what we are doing from our site, your 95% database contents. We are not doing any spider search or page indexing.

In article <38E36CAC.D3A4A0E6_at_attglobal.net>, tony_fulford_at_attglobal.net wrote:
> Currently most web site content is static content within the web site
> pages. This is changing very rapidly. Most new or revised web sites
 are not
> static content sites, most notably, virtually all commerce based web
 sites
> are database driven web sites. Where will your site be when 95% of the
> content is in databases? You will be left with a paltry 5% of the web
 which
> is not even statictically significant where e-commerce is concerned.
>
> I am trying to generate discussion on: How we all function when
 content is
> primarily contained in databases?
>
> Thanks for your participation.
>
> Tony Fulford
> ____________________________________________________________
>
> mallagent_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > Thank you Tony for your interests. To answer your question, no, we
 do
> > not query beyond what is given on each site published data contents.
> > The reasons are obvious, one, it is illegal to do that without
 consent
> > from each site, two, it will involve a hell lot of additional
 efforts
> > if we can do that. BUT, don't restrict yourself when you talk about
> > accessing databases across the Internet to just conventional
> > databases. Think about the published HTML pages from each site are
> > actually databases themselves, just in somewhat un-regulated format
 and
> > far from relational. Our site http://www.mallagent.com is a working
> > example of querying the entire Internet and aggregating different
 data
> > sources (un-related HTML pages). Non-confidential description? We
> > don't have one yet. We may take this off the board and exchange
 emails
> > later.
> >
>
> ...prior communication deleted. See the newsgroup.
>
>

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Before you buy. Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST