Page depth in Hotbot advanced search

What does the page depth setting do for you

[bufferzone]

If you search in Hotbot and use advanced search, you can specify a "page depht": I have tried it and not been able to guess what it will do for your search. Any insite??

[jeremy goodrich]

hm, haven't tried that one...I don't touch hotbot (too close to getting into a sewer) :)

Perhaps somebody else has experience with this one? You can also dig on the 'pure inktomi search' might be able to get more with that, if it's their db you are into checking...or use directhit or dmoz, which are their other two data sources.

[ggrot]

I haven't tried it, but it may be how many directories deep the page is, for example, bob.com/index.htm would have a page depth 1 lower than bob.com/bob/index.htm

[bufferzone]

I have tried to search with a page depth of 3, then 2 then 1. I can't see any difference in the result. It dosn't seem to affect the depth of the structure. The bob.com/bob/index.htm figures in all s earches