Surf3D AGENT: TopGovSitesAgent_1.xo WHAT IT DOES: Gathers report abstracts from www.100topgovernmentsites.com WHAT ITS GOOD FOR Getting a quick scan of interesting sites relating to the Government On a per web page node basis: Metric A counts and extracts sentences based on:congress puplic government federal county state city urban Metric B counts and extracts sentences based on: science space climate research explore micro geolog atmosp global weather Metric C counts and extracts sentences based on: search find explore locate index browse web internet Getting relevant report summaries for the many pages Getting sentence extracts from pages containing chosen word terms HOW IT WORKS: Drills down into each page in your Top Gov sites directory search Gets sentence counts and extracts sentences and report listings containing your preferred extraction keywords HOW TO SET IT UP: Save-As the provided TopGovSitesAgent_1.xo to a new name, such MyTopGovSitesAgent_1.xo Type preferred search term keywords into the Metric Lines Do not put any terms in the OR line if you want to do sentence extracts, and if you want to use OR terms to seek incidence of certain word combinations you will not get sentence extracts) Type preferred text extract keywords into the Metric channel lines A and B and C HOW TO USE IT: Start the agent by clicking on the Right Arrow icon on Surf3D's main graphic viewer window After it collects 100 results, click on the Page Icon to see the report VARIATIONS TO TRY: Browse the different view buttons #1 through #8 Try different searches with different keywords for text extraction Try different searches with different keywords for OR line evaluation Make agents for different news topics by changing keywords