An Internet Resource Verifier for Mac OS

Golem Status

After six years of more-or-less continual operation, Golem was finally taken offline in October, 2001, and put out to pasture for a well-deserved rest in a nice code archive with good food, good weather, and plenty of available memory. Source code and resources for Golem are not publicly available.

What was Golem?

Golem was an automated Internet crawler. Its job was to take your list of Internet resources in URL format (plus any information you'd like associated with them, like database IDs, titles, etc.) and generate a detailed report on the status of those URLs. Golem is particularly useful for helping maintain and verify large collections of Internet resources, such as those associated with large Internet-related editorial projects. If a Web page changes or moves, Golem told you. If a site isn't responding, Golem told you. If a newsgroup or FTP site is empty Golem told you. And, if everything's the way you expected it to be, Golem told you.

Last modified: Thursday July 24 2008