Query third party search engines

Dear companions,

<Subject is: Query third party search engines>

I 'm trying to understand how we can use third party database by collecting the search engine's answers. By this way, it would be possible to collect informations from third party databases.

. Does someone knows, what kind of agreements could be valuable
for that kind of partnership?

. Will Webmasters agree to give free access to my automated robots ?

. How Webmaster could advice me, that their HTML contents or Search
Engine changed ? Is there common rules to do so ?

. How does my server, located on Internet, retrieve the HTML contents
and parse it on demand ? How does it work ?

• ---------- --------------- | USER | --------> | ROBOT | ----------> | THIRD PARTY | | BROWSER| | | | SEARCH ENG. |
• ---------- --------------- | USE THE| <-------- | HTML | <---------- | THIRD PARTY | | DATA | | PARSER | | DATABASE |
• ---------- ---------------

. In this sense, is a JAVA Virtual Machine useful for the "HTML
PARSER" implementation?

Obviously, "HTML PARSER" could be implemented in the user's browser. But, that way, the browser has to understand JAVA ...

Sincerily yours,

R. Lobet Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:29:50 CEST