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Search sets are sets of parameters and options that control which search engines are used for a search run, which sites are crawled directly, what is filtered, and what is done with the returned results. DEVONagent Express comes with a number of built-in search sets: Apple (Feeds): Crawls some RSS feeds (Downloads, PR and Hot News) provided by Apple. Blogs & Usenet: Queries Blogs and Usenet plugins. Macintosh News (Latest): Crawls the most popular Macintosh news sites and feeds. Macintosh News (More): Searches (not just crawls) the popular Macintosh news sites and feeds. Marketing: Crawls more than 200 IT and Macintosh related news sites and feeds (the default query looks for news related to DEVONtechnologies). New Software: Crawls some software trackers and directories for new releases by DEVONtechnologies. Web (Deep): Queries Bing, Exalead, Google and Yahoo plugins (up to 100 results per plugin). Web (Downloads): Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for downloadable archives. Web (Express): Queries the Web plugin (up to 60 results) in express mode (no filtering). Web (Movies): Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for linked movies and videos. Web (Thumbnail Galleries): Queries the Web plugin and scans the results for thumbnail galleries.