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Search sets are sets of parameters and options that control which search engines are used for a search run, which sites are crawled directly, what is filtered, and what is done with the returned results. DEVONagent Express comes with a number of built-in search sets:

  • Apple (Feeds): 
    Crawls some RSS feeds (Downloads, PR and Hot News) provided by Apple.
  • Blogs: 
    Queries plugins searching blogs.
  • Macintosh News (Latest): 
    Crawls the most popular Macintosh news sites and feeds.
  • Macintosh News (More): 
    Searches (not just crawls) the popular Macintosh news sites and feeds.
  • Marketing: 
    Crawls more than 200 IT and Macintosh related news sites and feeds (the default query looks for news related to DEVONtechnologies).
  • New Software: 
    Crawls some software trackers and directories for new releases by DEVONtechnologies.
  • Web (Deep): 
    Queries Bing, Exalead, Google and Yahoo plugins (up to 100 results per plugin).
  • Web (Downloads): 
    Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for downloadable archives.
  • Web (Express): 
    Queries the Web plugin (up to 60 results) in express mode (no filtering).
  • Web (Movies): 
    Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for linked movies and videos.
  • Web (Thumbnail Galleries): 
    Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for thumbnail galleries.