Re: Atomz.com, reaching DB-fed pages

by Moe Rubenzahl <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>

Date:	Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:14:56 -0800
To:	"Rasika Wijayaratne" <rasika(at)boursedata.com.au>, "HWG-Gen" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
References:	Rasika2K
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>  Are there any people on this list who use the
>Atomz.com search engine on their DB driven site?

My site is Cold Fusion fed and I use Atomz (as of yesterday, in fact).

>Does anyone know how Atomz.com search engine handles indexing pages on a
>website which has dynamic database driven content.

It follows the links and indexes them. In one case, we created a Cold 
Fusion page that lists a link for every data sheet. This page is not 
linked to anywhere in the site. I gave the URL to Atomz as an entry 
point and it crawls the page and follows the links. So it knows about 
the page:

   http://dbserv.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm?appnote_number=142

and its contents because this link appears on the all-app-note page 
which is an entry point for Atomz indexing.

If all your content is reachable by spider from your main site, then 
you would not need the dummy page.

By the way, you can try it for free. They index 50 pages and are 
fully functional.

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