Only in the sense that AltaVista and most other search engines uses the text and embedded meta-information on your pages for indexing. By meta-information I mean things like <meta name="keywords" content="sex drugs breast implants obscene nudity"> <meta name="description" content="This is my lovely home page"> and others. I believe some engines -- perhaps Northern Light -- use link relationships to attempt (and fail) at determining contextual relevance, but beyond that, the state of the search engine world has arguably not improved noticeably since a few years ago, bar small but welcome babysteps of progress like Ask Jeeves and Google!, imho. -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_

-----Original Message----- From: ctpate@mail1.mco.bellsouth.net [mailto:ctpate@mail1.mco.bellsouth.net]On Behalf Of Clarence T. Pate Sent: 16. juni 1999 01:31 To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] external search engines (altavista, etc.)

I have just joined the list, but I have been reading about Zope for a while now. I think this package is cool! I also like the neat packages that were announced today.

Can search engines such as AltaVista mine the information out of a Zope website. I have seen responses to other questions that there are ways to use a search engine to search a Zope website, but can the commercial laces search the website. It would be nice for other places to know about things in your website, unless you want it to be private.

Clarence T. Pate

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