[Egothor-tech] Question about egothor

[Charles Christacopoulos]

Yaacov Garber wrote:
> I was recommended to your site. I have a question about your search tool 
> and please keep in mind I am not a programmer.
> 
> I need a search engine for a confidential web site. I.e., will never 
> appear in a Google search.
> 
> Is your tool susceptible to web crawlers like google and others?
> 

Hi there,

I hope his tool (Leo's tool) is not susceptible to anything else he will 
not be very happy.

It is up to those who implement the website in question to protected it 
from unauthorised access.  The search engine could easily work within 
that protected zone.  The engine itself does not have to offer the 
protection as that work is done by the web server.  Having said that, 
you must watch out for rogue engines which could pass information out 
eg. on how they are used etc (BTW. I don't know of any such engines but 
no doubt they may exist).

You might want to discuss with your technical staff how they would 
implement security and then see for which engine can meet the requirements.

Regards
Charles



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