Mercator web crawler

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf web crawler
gptkbp:citation Heydon, Allan, et al. 'Mercator: A scalable, extensible Web crawler.' World Wide Web 2.4 (1999): 219-229.
gptkbp:designedFor large-scale web crawling
gptkbp:developedBy gptkb:Compaq_Systems_Research_Center
gptkbp:developer gptkb:Marc_Najork
gptkb:Monika_Henzinger
Allan Heydon
Janet Wiener
Kenneth J. McCurley
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Mercator web crawler
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:IBM_WebFountain
gptkbp:notableFor scalability
flexibility
gptkbp:releaseYear 1997
gptkbp:supports customizable modules
URL filtering
distributed crawling
content parsing
politeness policies
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:AltaVista
gptkbp:writtenBy gptkb:Java
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Rolf_Najork
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7