Notes for Harpoon Search
1. Harpoon Search is a fully spidered Freenet search engine. This means that
you can search for text or html pages containing certain words in their
text, as opposed to just searching on URIs or titles.
2. Temporary URL for Harpoon is http://harpoonsearch.cjb.net
3. Search engine results are based on your node's FProxy being at
http://127.0.0.1:8081
4. Using Harpoon directly is non-anonymous. However, I do regularly delete
all access logs. If you feel wary, then please access Harpoon through your
favourite anonymising http proxy.
5. You can do boolean searches, using 'and', 'or', 'not' and parentheses,
like Altavista
6. You can sort by relevance, time or title.
7. Phrase searching not available - but will be added soon
8. Search results are confined to pages within standard freesites, or URIs
beginning with 'MSK'. For example, Snarfoo, Content of Evil etc.
No stray CHKs, KSKs or other non-freesite URIs will appear. This is because
the spider is busy enough trying to track down the MSK pages as it is, and
such a low percentage of advertised CHKs are actually retrievable.
9. A submission form will be added in the near future, so you can add your
own freesite (again, MSKs only. CHKs, KSKs, SVKs and SSKs will be
automatically rejected).
10. Fuzzy searching not available, but will be added if there is popular
demand.
11. The server running Harpoon does not necessarily contain the pages
returned in the search results. I have no way of determining whether any
results actually exist on the server. Also, the spidering is fully
automatic - there is no way for me to screen content. The search results
generated by Harpoon point to your own local node. The fact that a hyperlink
generated by Harpoon works for you does not imply the existence of the page
on the Harpoon server.
12. The search database is constructed by a recursive crawl starting at the
FProxy Gateway page.
13. Bugs, suggestions etc - please email me -
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Cheers
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "David McNab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 00:14
Subject: [freenet-chat] Harpoon - your new Freenet search engine
> Hi fellow Freenetters,
>
> It gives me pleasure to announce 'Harpoon', a new Freenet search engine
> residing on the WWW.
>
> Harpoon is a true crawler, which indexes all the currently viewable
> freesites.
> So you can search on words which occur within current freesite pages.
>
> It is my intention to keep an update daemon running regularly, so that
most
> or all of the search results that come up will be live, retrievable pages.
>
> The temporary web address for Harpoon is:
> http://harpoonsearch.cjb.net
>
> Enjoy!
> David
>
>
>
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