I want a GNU Search Engine

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While restarting Outlook, Alan Connor grumbled:

Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary.

Killfiled for 30 days.

Killfile me, too, okay?

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

Somewhere around the time of 10/31/2003 17:22, the world stopped and
listened as Paul Hovnanian P.E. contributed this to humanity:

Jeff Relf wrote:

[snip]

Ask yourself this question John :
" Why has the GNU philosophy continued to fail us ? "

Ask yourself this question: Seeing as how the basic operating principles
of Google are pretty well known, why can't a software company with a
bottomless R&D budget build their own competing product?

Actually, they tried and failed. Look at MSN search for a case in point.

It was their business plan that failed. Very few web site owners are
willing to pay for a position in a search engine. Particularly when free
alternatives (like Google) exist.

That's why Microsoft needs to 'partner' with Google.

 

[Andy Baxter]

At earth time Sun, 02 Nov 2003 07:29:00 -0800, the entity known as Paul
Hovnanian P.E. made the following transmission:

Daniel Rudy wrote:

Tech support: Do you have any windows open right now?
Customer: Are you crazy? Its twenty below out!

Have you heard the one that goes like this:

Customer: I want to return my computer because it's not well made.
Tech support: What's the problem exactly?
Customer: Well I put my mug on the coffee cup holder and it just broke
clean off. I think you guys should build things properly if you want
people to buy them.
Tech support: <puzzled> What coffee cup holder is that? <pause> Ah, I see,
is that the coffee cup holder that conveniently slides out when you press
a button on the front of the case?

andy.

 

[Wayne Throop]

: Alan Connor <[email protected]>
: Look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary.

I did. There's a picture of Alan Connor as illustration.

 

[Stefan Monnier]

And how would you even know if a client is a Linux user?

That would be established when they signed up for access to the search
engine.

The question was "how", not "when".
Also, if you require people to sign up, I expect you'll see much
fewer users. Might be a good plan if you want to reduce the load
even further. But at some point the load of search requested will be so
small that it'll be difficult to justify the load created by crawling the
web and storing the resulting index.


Stefan