Tetranet's first bot for the Web manager market was Linkbot, which checks sites for broken links, slow links, and orphan pages. As with any decent bot, Wisebot is supposed to do all the work. Users just give it the URL of the site in question, and Wisebot spiders through the site, loading meta information about each page into a database. This information includes the title, keywords, and the last date each page was modified. Wisebot can also automatically generate keywords using its Extractor technology, which examines the frequency of words and their proximity to the top of the page.
Users can add their own keywords to customize the results.
The index is searchable by keyword or subject. By editing a template, the index pages can be made to match the other pages of the site, right down to the server-side includes. For smaller sites, Wisebot can be used by visitors in place of a search engine to locate keywords and phrases. For large sites, Wisebot works as a complement to search engines. Unlike search engines, however, Wisebot only indexes the keywords on a page, not every word.