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RevBots Intelligent site agents “RevBots” are a novel network technology that mimic the behavior of network data collection robots, but actually operate in reverse, from the point of view of sources of network data, metadata, content and information. Besides other capabilities, a RevBot allows a network node to update the information and content at other network nodes efficiently and rapidly, ensuring timely and accurate information. For example, a RevBot allows a website to update the information and content at other network nodes that is normally only periodically extracted from the website, particularly nodes that comprise search engine databases. 
Most existing search engine technology for indexing data is slow, expensive and inaccurate. The onus for indexing and categorizing data is completely on the search engine whose programs can only guess at the meaning of a site's content. The process is this: First, the search engine needs to locate, register or find the website. Then a bot, also called a spider, is sent to scan the site. Bots are automated software programs, known as “agents” used to locate and collect data from web pages for inclusion in a search engine's database, and, from that data, link to those new pages on the network. The information is then returned and integrated into the searchable database. This process is periodically repeated, and with the ever growing number of pages in a search engine, a typical website is visited about once every two or three months.
RevBots can be installed on other network nodes besides those hosting websites. In one example, RevBots are installed on intranet computing platforms or a network backbone to reduce network communication bottlenecks, identify and report problem situations and thwart hackers. In another example, RevBots are installed on a company’s hub, router, gateway or proxy server to perform filtering, secure e-mailing and other tasks. With yet another method of operation, a RevBot promotes the content not associated with a website or any network node. This way, RevBots establish a web presence without the requirement of a website, ftp site, forum, or other standard network component. With this invention, entirely new classifications of network services can be created, setup and managed by emerging business entities such as “webless content providers” (our term). As opposed to creating a website or adding data to a database or list, webless content providers promotes a customer’s data, metadata, and content so that it appears in normal website territory such as in a search engine.
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