Preferences : Search

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General
Create Previews
Max. Connections
Max. Download Size
Exclude Domains, ...

Contains all options dealing with the cache, the number of connections, and domains excluded from searching.

General

Ignore instructions for robots: Ignores instructions embedded into the HTML code of webpages that tell robots (like DEVONagent Pro) to not index a page. If unchecked (default setting), DEVONagent Pro tries to honor the wishes of the webpages creator.
Cache downloaded pages: Check if you want DEVONagent Pro to store downloaded pages in its cache. This consumes disk space, but leads to much faster searches when DEVONagent Pro scans an already cached page.
Clear on quit: When checked, DEVONagent Pro clears the cache upon quit.
Cache Directory: Shows the path to the folder used by DEVONagent Pro for its cache. Double-click an item to reveal it in the Finder or select another folder for DEVONagent Pro to use.

Create Previews

Choose whether DEVONagent Pro should create previews of visited or found pages immediately or on demand, and set how DEVONagent Pro generates thumbnails of webpages.

Immediately: Previews are created and cached immediately.
On demand: Previews are created and cached only when needed (default).
Directly: DEVONagent Pro generates thumbnails itself (higher quality).
Via DEVONtechnologies.com: Generates web page thumbnails via web service (faster).

Note: DEVONagent Pro never sends more than just the URLs of the to-be-thumbnailed webpages to Thumbshots.com.

Max. Connections

Use this parameter to adjust the number of connections DEVONagent Pro uses concurrently so as to match the speed of your Internet connection and your computer.

Max. Download Size

Choose how large files can be that DEVONagent Pro downloads in search runs. Adjust this to your Internet connection speed. Files skipped due to file size are marked as "Too big" in the log tab of the search window.

Exclude Domains, ...

Exclude Domains: Enter all domains you want to exclude from searching in this text field, separated by returns. Use this to exclude domains blocking automatic bots like DEVONagent Pro, e.g., 'sciencemag.org' or 'slashdot.org', or to ignore sites you don't like. Domains skipped because they match one or more entries in this list are marked as 'Skipped' in the Log tab of the Search window.

Exclude Links: Enter URLs you want to exclude from being searched.

Note: Both fields also accept the '*' wildcards at the beginning or end of lines.