The Yellow Pages do not list a category of 1-800 numbers for ufos, but asimple search on the latest Internet tool called Harvest just might help find anumber to dial. Harvest, devloped at the University of Colorado, is an integrated set of toolsthat search, gather, organize, and copy information across the Internet. Userscan customize searches to look for information connected to names, subjects,locations, and phone numbers, even if the queries are partial numbers ormisspelled names.
Harvest is much more customized.
In fact, the Colorado replicas of the Harvest indexes are so popular that theyhave been used by over 10,800 sites in 90 countries. Currently, Harvest uses only textual searching engines, butSchwartz says he eventually would like to see more multimedia aspects such asaudio and image search engines attached to the software. To use Harvest in finding information on a subject, users can type in a few keywords within the given query choices in the Harvest indexes. The software willthen scan files on the Internet and compile a list of sources, phone numbers,or other information requested on the subject. Unlike other informationextracting tools such as Veronica or Archie, Harvest is used to ease the strainon servers, or host computers, as well as the overall network traffic.