What is GAISbot?

GAISbot is an academic web crawler operated by the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia at National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taiwan. Its primary function is to collect and index web pages for research purposes, particularly in the fields of information retrieval, search engine development, and data mining. GAISbot is associated with the GAIS (Global Access Information System) search engine project, which aims to provide efficient web search capabilities and support various academic studies related to web data analysis. The bot identifies itself as 'gaisbot' in its user agent string and typically adheres to the robots.txt protocol, respecting website owners' preferences regarding crawling. GAISbot is not a commercial crawler and is mainly used within academic and research contexts.

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