Re: Internet search engines and databases

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. Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST