Web maintenance by web robots?

[Earl Young]

     InContext WebAnalyzer and ClearWeb (both of which are available in 
     demo versions) are useful products for this kind of work.  They are 
     not robots in the strict sense - they are site managers that help 
     determine whether links go anywhere "real".
     
     Web page use is also not the normal province of a robot.  WebTrends 
     and the server logs can typically provide you the data needed to 
     identify what is going on at your site.
     
     robots typically deal with remote sites.


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Subject: Web maintenance by web robots?
Author:  qut at ornl.gov at INTERNET
Date:    2/26/97 2:06 PM


Greetings!
     
I just came out of a meeting which focused on web maintenance and the 
subject of web robots or crawlers - automated applications which check web 
page use and link validity - were mentioned as a way to supplement manual 
checks and web page policies.
     
Does anyone have experience with specific applications or robots in general 
which they can share?
     
I've played around with some demo copies before and am familiar with robot 
capabilities, but I haven't talked to those who have actually used robots 
as part of web site maintenance.  Any experiences with the implementation 
and use of "robots" will be appreciated -
     
Thanks,
     
Sandi Blackburn
     
     
Sandi Blackburn
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(423)241-5723
qut at ornl.gov