Internet Agents: Spiders, Wanderers, Brokers, and 'Bots

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely useless
Review: Absolutely useless, a bunch of generalizations deluded with pseudo-scientific diatribe.

Tells you the most general (REALLY general) things about web engines. Things you probably know even before opening the book. Can be rightfully classified to fall into the category of "Learn nuclear physics in 24 hours while chewing on potato chips..."

Rating:
Summary: good for just a starting point
Review: Not bad for a general overview of the whole huge area. Getting alittle dated now. It gives a good background for knowing which way to go though the info is also available online with alittle searching (using the bots :)

Rating:
Summary: Good academic review...
Review: While the book does not provide a lot of very useful, in-depth technical details, it does provide a good academic/literature review on web spiders in the early days.