The Gatherer retrieves information resources using a variety of standard access methods and then summarizes those resources in various type- specific ways to generate structured indexing information. Harvest Brokers or other search services can then retrieve the indexing information from the Gatherer to use in a searchable index available via a WWW interface.
Objects remain in the database until they expire.
Host and directory path can be displayed also. Search examples are also displayed on the main page, which is very good thing. Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache and replicate relevant information across the Internet. Harvest makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and disk space. Also, Harvest allows users to control the enumeration several ways, including stop lists and depth and count limits.