SSSiter™ is your personal Web crawler that automates the retrieval and selection of useful information available on the World Wide Web.
SSSiter allows you to:
- Build site maps of one or more Web sites. SSSiter™ formats and displays site maps in an easy-to-understand and navigate hierarchy of folders.
- Search for data based on questions you provide. The resulting reports supply you with the most relevant data being retrieved directly from the specified site(s). Furthermore, you may enter these questions in the language of your choice. If necessary, the product performs on-the-fly translation of original Web pages into your native language (such as, from Chinese into English, English into German, etc.)
You may operate SSSiter™ in the background while you work on other tasks. When the search is complete, SSSiter™ creates a report of its findings which you may access using the product built-in browser, your default one, or store it for later viewing. Since SSSiter™ also operates off-line, the search speed and the overall performance get substantially increased. Both speed and performance make SSSiter™ an essential tool for investigating the Web.
When you run SSSiter for the first time, displayed is a window entitled "Subject Search Siter - NONAME". This is a sample query folder containing several queries you may use to get up and running immediately. This allows you to quickly get familiar with SSSiter as well as check its search capabilities. You may enter new queries into the "NONAME" sample folder, rename it or, create your own custom query folders based on subjects of interest and Web sites you provide. For example, "Software" or "Kryloff Technologies" (www.kryltech.com).
Search results are stored in these folders allowing you to build up a portfolio of search reports grouped by your favorite topics or sites:
The first several rows of the sample query folder have queries such as,
"Employment opportunities" and "Multi-language support
in Kryloff products" that are addressed
to specific Web Sites. To execute any of these queries, just double-click a
corresponding icon using the left mouse button or press the Run
button on
the application toolbar.
You may also enter new queries by clicking the
New 
button
on the application toolbar or, by pressing the combination of keys <Ctrl+N>.
If, for example, you wish to enter a similar query for AOL (located on the Web
at "www.netscape.com"), press Ctrl+N, then point the mouse to
the Web Sites field on the left pane (Query Properties), and type
"www.netscape.com". If you only wish to obtain a site map of
www.netscape.com, simply click the Run icon on the toolbar.
If you are looking for particular information on this site (e.g., Netscape's
copyrighted logos), enter "Use of Copyrighted Logos" in the Search Phrase
field on the Query Properties (left) pane, and click the Run
button. SSSiter will build a map of the specified Web Site along with
the detailed report addressing your query.
SSSiter automatically specifies defaults under the other fields on the query properties pane using a set of standard preferences. These preferences are user definable, however, the standard defaults have been tuned to optimize initial searches for you as a beginner.
If you are not connected to the Internet, you will be prompted to connect to your on-line provider via the Dial-Up Networking "Connect to..." dialog (applicable to those customers who use the telephone dial-up connection). Once you are connected to the Internet, SSSiter will begin processing your queries and/or start building site map(s). As soon as the first query is processed (either within the time or document limit set in the Query Options pane on the left side of the product window), you'll hear a voice sound telling "Your report is ready" (in English). This means that SSSiter has completed the query and loaded the report with its findings to its built-in or your default browser.
You may browse this report while SSSiter continues gathering information for other
queries, which once complete, are also automatically loaded into your browser.
Each SSSiter report summarizes the number of locations visited, the time taken, and
whether the processing was interrupted due to a specified time limit. SSSiter also informs
you of the number of quotations or extracts it has selected from the sites visited and
lists them in the report sorted by relevancy.
Shown below are two example reports built by SSSiter. The first report presents a
map of www.netscape.com and the other contains information on "Use of Copyrighted
Logos". SSSiter has placed both reports in the NONAME Query Folder.
You may view any of these queries at a later date by opening an appropriate
query folder (i.e., noname.ssf) and clicking the Report
button. Likewise,
you may also view the site map of Netscape by selecting the application main menu
items Tools, then Site Maps 
button. Pressing the Library 
button calls the
Librarian which lists all reports on your Search Phrases.
Note: All actual links in the example report below have been replaced with those to the Kryloff Web site.
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Note: All actual links in the example report below have been replaced with those to the Kryloff Web site.
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Warranties and Limitation of Liability
Use of Copyrighted Materials and Logos
© Netscape, All Rights Reserved. Legal & Privacy Notices. This site powered by Netscape SuiteSpot servers...
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... Read Netscape's legal information , including warranties and limitation of liability statements, a list of Netscape trademarks and guidelines on using them correctly, and a guide to the use of copyrighted materials and logos...
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See also: Submitting Queries and Viewing Results
SSSiter provides you with a wide range of smart, unique, and easy-to-use searching capabilities:
SSSiter obtains Site Maps and performs full-text or other types of searches in several steps:
Step 1. Having entered one or more URL's of Web sites you are going to search on, launch your queries by clicking the main menu items Query, and then Run or Run off-line. SSSiter starts processing your queries.
Step 2. SSSiter recognizes hyper-links on Web pages and automatically follows them (receiving up to 20 documents at a time) allowing to build a Web site index. Starting from the root of the tree (the URL or URL's you type into the Search Sites field), SSSiter first goes horizontally through the site looking for all documents on a given level and then vertically avoiding possible loops and hyper-links that fall outside the Web site(s) under investigation.
Step 3. If you have also entered a search phrase, SSSiter parses each document using an intelligent text search engine embedded into the program. This engine matches text in each document with your search phrase and highlights relevant quotations and extracts from the document. These quotations are then sorted by relevancy (best matches first), after which SSSiter creates a corresponding report containing all of its findings.
Note: SSSiter version 5 or later allows translating contents of Web pages being investigated, on the fly. This allows you to enter your search queries and obtain reports in your native language (English, for example) even in case you need to investigate sites written in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, etc.
Step 4. The final step for SSSiter is to place the reports into a specified library and (if user preferences are set up to do so), launch the built-in or your default Internet browser to display the query report. Queries that are configured with a search phrase, cause SSSiter to generate two reports; one with a site map and the other with quotations/extracts that match your Search Phrase.
Step 5. SSSiter repeats the above steps until all the queries you issued have been completed. This way you may run multiple queries and as SSSiter works in the background, continue working on other tasks.
Note:
SSSiter keeps the most recently received documents in the Temporary Internet Files
folder for subsequent searches. This allows SSSiter to quickly access these documents
next time you launch a new query or work off-line.
Example:
Assume, you want to investigate the Kryloff Technologies Web Site (located at
"www.kryltech.com")
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1. SSSiter starts investigating by cataloging the root document located at www.kryltech.com.
2. When the document is received, if necessary, translated into your native language, then fully scanned and processed, SSSiter follows the links 11, 12 and 13 and retrieves documents "www.kryltech.com/news.htm", "www.kryltech.com/aboutkt.htm", and "www.kryltech.com/langsupp.htm".
3. Having investigated "www.kryltech.com/news.htm", SSSiter does not follow link 21 as it goes outside the www.kryltech.com Web Site. Links that lead SSSiter outside a specified Web Site are always skipped by the product.
As there are no more links in "www.kryltech.com/news.htm", SSSiter extracts new links from "www.kryltech.com/aboutkt.htm" and "www.kryltech.com/langsupp.htm" and continues investigation by following links 22 and 23.
4. When "www.kryltech.com/download.htm" and "www.kryltech.com/feedback.htm" have been downloaded, SSSiter finishes investigating this Web Site as the only new link (31) leads to a previously loaded document. Indeed, link 31 points to the root www.kryltech.com, a location from which SSSiter has started its investigation.
5. The resulting report contains the map of www.kryltech.com. In case when you've entered a Search Phrase, SSSiter also builds one more report with corresponding quotations.
See also: Submitting Queries and Viewing Results and Editing SSSiter Preferences
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