Looking for Web sites harvesting tool

[Greg Dean Schmitz]

When you use Front Page 97 as your HTML editor, you can use it in 
conjunction with your browser (either IE or Netscape, whatever you use), 
so that when you create a link, Front Page automatically uses the address 
of the page you are currently looking at.  This is actually the default, 
so there's not much else to tell you.  I find this to be very handy for 
my home-use WWW page, where I use Front Page.  When I see a site I like 
on the WWW, I just open up Front Page, type in the name of the page and a 
description, then click Link, and it's done, copying the address straight 
from my browser.

Hope this is what you meant.  :)  Front Page doesn't do all that you 
described, but it does have that function which is similar.

Greg Dean Schmitz
schmitz at axp.winnefox.org

On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Chen, Shu wrote:

> I am on a mission to collect Web sites for different topics, and I am
> looking for a tool that allows me to collect Web sites into my own html
> files with some ease.  Ideally the tool would take down the url from the
> current active Web browser and gives me a window to put in clickable
> text and description/abstract type of information, and also allows me to
> save the collection in an html file.  
> 
> I have spent two days searching for such a thing on the Web, but have
> not found one yet.  Does anyone know if there is such a tool out there?
> Or do I have to do an awful lot of copy and paste to get the job done?
> Thanks in advance for any hints and directions!
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Ernest Perez[SMTP:perez at opac.osl.state.or.us]
> > Reply To: 	perez at opac.osl.state.or.us
> > Sent: 	Friday, December 05, 1997 1:43 PM
> > To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: 	Re: harvesting in the www for public libraries
> > 
> > Maike Jakobs writes:
> > > I'm student of Library science in Hamburg at the department of
> > Library and
> > > Information Studies. I'm writing my thesis on harvesting in the www
> > for
> > > public libraries.
> > > Please would you kindly share with me your experiences in gathering
> > Internet
> > > Sites.
> > > I'm especially interested if somebody is working with search agent
> > software
> > > (for example Forefronts Webseeker). Would you say that such programs
> > are a
> > > easy and efficient way to gather Internet Sites? I'm looking for a
> > faster way
> > > to do my searches than to use all the different search engines.
> > 
> > I'd recommend you look at the demo download of Copernic, running on
> > Windows95.  I've found it to be quite useful in effortless quick scan
> > of
> > several major search engines. If you pay the registration fee to go
> > past
> > the time-out demo limit, you also get an automatically-updating
> > feature
> > which downloads new host search engine definitions and updates to
> > current hosts.
> > 
> > FYI, they recently won the Ziff-Davis (computer magazine publisher)
> > award for "most valuable Internet tool," or some such. It's featured
> > in
> > their downloads archive.  I append below a short blurb from a private
> > site which links to and recommends Copernic.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -ernest perez
> > Ernest Perez//Oregon State
> > Library//perez at opac.osl.state.or.us//503-378-4243
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ------
> > "We've all heard that, given enough time, a million monkeys at a
> > million
> > keyboards could produce the works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the
> > Internet, we know this is not true."
> > 
> > >  Copernic 32-bit 1.1a (1.90 mb) Find what you want easier and faster
> > with Copernic! Copernic
> > > is an intelligent agent that carries out your net-searches by
> > consulting simultaneously the most
> > > important search engines of the Web. It features a history of your
> > searches, making sure that
> > > the precious information found on the Internet is always classified
> > and handy. This software also
> > > lets you update, modify and refine your searches by using a flexible
> > and user-friendly interface
> > > which has the touch and feel of most common e-mail applications.
> > Homepage at <http://www.copernic.com>
> > 
> 

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Oshkosh Public Library		|	Phone:  (920)236-5219 x4814
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