
RankSpy: README
==============================

Please read this file carefully (especially "Installation"
chapter) before installing the program to your computer.


Contents
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  Program information
  Company information
  Description
  Installation and uninstallation
  History
  Registration
  Copyright and license
  Technical support


Program information
-------------------

Program Archive Name:
  rankspy.zip
Program Name:
  RankSpy
Program Version:
  1.21
Program Release Date:
  July 30, 2002
Program Description:
  Indirect assessment of site indexation in search engines.
Target OS:
  Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000
Software type:
  Shareware ($40)


Company information
-------------------

Company Name:
  Tweak Marketing Inc.
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@searchutilities.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.searchutilities.com/
Contact Postal Address:
  2-407, Garaznaya str.
  Kaliningrad 236000 Russia


Description
-----------

RankSpy is the first software in the  world  designed  for  indirect
assessment of site  indexation  in  search  engines,  for  revealing
unindexed pages, and for creating a list of pages that contain links
to your site. RankSpy can extract from search engines the  following
link sets for any specified domain:

   * List of your site pages indexed by search engines. 
   * List of pages that contain links to your site. 

The lists are extracted using special commands of a  search  engine.
For example, AltaVista retrieves the first list on the command host,
and the second one on the command link. Example:

     host:www.mailutilities.com

Unfortunately, there is no uniform standard  for  all  these  search
engines, and it is impossible to get lists of indexed pages or pages
with links from some of them. Some search engines don't provide  all
the information available with them. For example,  Google  retrieves
on the above requests no more than 1000 entries,  and  some  of  the
entries in the list might be duplicate.

However,  RankSpy  still  retrieves  the  most  valuable   marketing
information. No other software will currently provide you with  this
type of report on indexation levels of your site.  This  information
will help you to reveal registration mistakes and faults.

RankSpy has unlimited search depth (all results are  dependant  upon
the search engines at the time of submission). Results are  provided
in a table format, so it is easily possible to  save  a  project  to
continue working on it later, to save reports in  HTML,  CSV  (Comma
Separated Values), Microsoft Excel or text format.

Hope you will find RankSpy helpful, and will enjoy using it.


Installation and uninstallation
-------------------------------

Important! If you've got RankSpy not from our web page, but from
the other source (magazine CD or some software library), please
visit our home page - you'll probably find the later version;
usually, we release the updates about once a month.

To install RankSpy, just run the "setup.exe" and follow the
instructions. You'll need to select the target directory
and the components to install.

Please note that uninstall program (which removes all RankSpy files
from your computer -- if you'll decide to do that) executes a
few external programs; that can take up to a few minutes -- so
please be patient.



History
-------

See "history.txt" file.

Registration
------------

See "order.txt" file.


Copyright and license
---------------------

See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
-----------------

Before you contact us, please do the following:

- Be sure that you're doing everything right. We all make
  mistakes sometimes... Be attentive.
- Look at the Help file: it may already contain an answer to
  your question. A lot of people ask us something like "how
  do I:", though the complete information is there.
- Visit RankSpy home page in the Internet at
  http://www.searchutilities.com/. It's a good chance that you'll
  find the newer version of RankSpy there. If the serious bug has
  been found in the program, but the new version is not ready yet,
  we make the hot fix for it.

But if you still have a problem with RankSpy and noting else helps,
please contact technical support at:

  support@searchutilities.com

Please inform us about the following:

  - RankSpy version (from "About" dialog)
  - RankSpy serial number (if you're a registered user)
  - where did you get RankSpy (http or ftp site)
  - Windows 95/98/NT version (including service packs and other
    fixes installed), US or international, OEM or not
  - computer information: CPU type and speed, installed memory
  - description of your problem (as much information as possible
    to retrieve the problem)

Note: you may want to read the "How to Determine the Version of
Windows 95 in Use" article by Microsoft. Use the following URL:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q158/2/38.asp

In order to get the complete computer information (working under
Windows 95), open the Control Panel, click on "System" applet and
press "Print" on "Device Manager" tab.

If you have any comments or suggestions for the next releases,
please don't hesitate to post them to us.

