Neo (Yahoo! 360° bot)

Infobox Software


name = Neo
caption = Neo, the first Yahoo! 360° bot

developer =
latest_release_version = 1.0.5
latest_release_date = March 21, 2007
operating_system = Cross-Platform
genre = Internet bot
license = Proprietary
website = [http://www.syavash.com/portal/projects/neo-yahoo-360-bot-project Syavash.com]

Neo is the first Yahoo! 360° bot and is written in [http://java.sun.com Java] . It crawls Yahoo! 360° using Breadth-first search method, In the beta testing it was programmed to post a comment in each page it passes. Neo saves everything in the top page and separates them into different fields like Name, Birth date, Study Place, Living place, Yahoo! ID and etc. It also can find the nationality of people even if there isn't any sign of it in their page using their friends page and fuzzy logic [ [http://www.syavash.com/portal/projects/neo-yahoo-360-bot-project Neo, The first Yahoo! 360 bot - Siavash Mahmoudian ] ] .

References

External links

* [http://www.syavash.com Syavash.com]
* [http://360.yahoo.com/profile-ajW3NC4_fqnMTuy6UrUn Neo profile in Yahoo! 360°]