Does HiveBot follow Robots.txt rules?

Yes, HiveBot respects the Robots Exclusion Standard and follows all rules specified in the robots.txt file.

What information does HiveBot save?

Along with images, HiveBot saves the following information:

• Host URL and text on the page
• Alt text associated with image

How do we use this information?

Once images and text are downloaded from a webpage, Hive analyzes this data from the page and stores the information in an index. Our web intelligence products use this index to enable search and retrieval of similar images.