WebAnts
: Hunting in Packs
Features
- Favor explorer-based schemes
- Use multiple explorers to solve the fan-in, fan-out problem
- Avoid multiple searches of the same site by different searchers
Cooperative Explorer Agent
- For searching, cooperation allows different ants ro be directed based on others' results.
- For indexing, cooperation conserves indexer resources
- Distributes the indexing load.
- Need a solution to the index scale problem