Re: Search engine for FoRK

Keith Dawson (black@wookie.net)
Wed, 2 Jul 1997 21:01:25 -0600 (MDT)


I believe my Magic 8-Ball Search Engine(tm) will provide superior results
to either of those *and* no messy search syntax! Simply use your mouse
to vigorously agitate the Virtual 8-Ball and you are assured of getting
concise, quality results in a fraction of the time most search engines
require. "Answer Fuzzy" not to your liking? Simply shake again!

Why is Magic 8-Ball so fast? Because it is entirely client-side. That's
right, we actually download the entire index and search engine to *your*
computer. Our advanced compression techniques squeeze all that into a
mere 50k (patents pending).

I'll be sure to post here when we go into beta.

b3n yes my name really is black

On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Keith Dawson wrote:

> >Alta Vista is just pathetic, and I've locked myself in by learning their
> >searching grammar. Has anyone tried Hotbot? Is it better?
>
> It's better. It's current, nearly. Searching grammars are easy,
> I just learned them all as the new engines appeared, though the
> metasearch tools make the question almost moot. Have you seen
> Dogpile (nee Arfie)?
>
> http://www.dogpile.com/
> http://www.tbtf.com/archive/11-12-96.html#s11
>
> I've also had good luck with Metacrawler. Its output formatting
> is slicker.
>
> http://www.metacrawler.com/
>
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