Advanced Link Manager User Guide

Performance

Maximum number of simultaneous connections

This preference controls how many HTTP connections to search engines will be made simultaneously. A higher number will mean a faster update, while a smaller number a slower one.

You should set this option carefully, based on the bandwidth and performance of your computer. We strongly recommend a conservative setting. A higher setting may easily consume all the bandwidth of your Internet connection and/or your CPU cycles.

Search depth

This preference controls the number of search results downloaded by Advanced Link Manager for each of the keywords. Note that higher settings may significantly slow down your updates .

Number of retries if a connection fails

This preference controls the number of times the application tries to connect to a search engine in the event of a connection failure or timeout.

Be nice to Search Engines

When this preference is on, Advanced Link Manager will exercise the lightest possible load on the search engines resources by mimicking a human action as close as possible. For that, it will avoid simultaneously sending two different queries to the same search engine and it will make pauses between downloading two pages from an engine.

It is very important to keep this preference checked. Because automated querying can impose a very high load on the search engines, some of them may take action against users abusing their services.

Random delay between queries

If the "Be nice to Search Engines" option is selected, you can specify here the upper and the lower limits of a random time interval that Advanced Link Manager will wait in between two consecutive queries.

Sleep after a number of searches

If the "Sleep [number] minutes after [number] searches" option is selected the application will stop gathering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the specified number of searches. A search means a keyword looked up on a search engine, with the specified number of results retrieved.

Sleep after a number of failed connections

If the "Sleep [number] minutes if a search engine fails [number] times" option is selected, the application will stop gathering data from the search engines for the specified number of minutes after the specified number of failed connections. Note that each failed connection is made up of the above mentioned number of retries. Only the querying of the search engines that fail to retrieve data will sleep for the desired number of minutes.

Google API

Click on the "Use Google API" option and then enter the one or more keys that you received from Google. As long as this option is enabled, all searches made on the Google search engine will use the Google API.

[Important]Important

You have the possibility to use more than one Google API key. After you finish entering your first Google API key, just press on the "+" button and enter another one. Don't forget to press on the "+" every time you want to insert a key. Use the "-" to remove the selected key from the combo box.

A Google API key is restricted to 1000 searches per day. Once this limit is reached for all the keys, Advanced Link Manager will display a message and the search will continue without using Google API.

Yahoo API

Click on the "Use Yahoo API" option and then enter one or more keys that you received from Yahoo. As long as this option is enabled, all searches made on the Yahoo search engine will use the Yahoo API.

[Important]Important

You have the possibility to use more than one Yahoo API key. After you finish entering your first Yahoo API key, just press on the "+" button and enter another one. Don't forget to press on the "+" every time you want to insert a key. Use the "-" to remove the selected key from the combo box.

The Yahoo API is still in Beta stage so its parameters could change over time until a stable version is released.