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Foil 8 Major uses of Web Robots

From HPDC95 Web Search Presentation HPDC95 Pentagon City -- August 1,1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Resource Discovery - Summarize large parts of Web, and provide access to them
Statistical Analysis - Count number of Web servers, avg number of documents per server etc
Mirroring - Cache an entire Sub-space of a Web server, and allow load sharing, faster access etc
Maintenance - Assist authors in locating dead links, and help maintain content, structure etc of a document

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