----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: Brin-l traffic analysis (relatively useless statistics)


>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf Of Dan Minette
>
> ...
>
> > Why would Nick be using a search program which has English as a second
> > language and Jeroen use a search program that has English as a first
> > language?  I presume that's why Nick's  program got tired reading
> > my posts.
> > It is harder work reading in a second language :-)
>
> It didn't get tired.  It didn't read the posts, just the index pages on
> Yahoo.  That's one of the nice things about crawling Yahoo -- you can get
> the traffic patterns from the index pages.
>
> Of course, you probably didn't want a serious answer.  Too bad.

Are you admitting, finally, that your search engine works too poorly to be
reliable?

Dan M.

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