what happened? I haven't gotten a post in like 8 days, and that's on Chat! Is there nobody at the wheel? Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stefan Reich > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 7:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Harpoon Search - user notes > > > Hi David, > > > Freenet would be best served IMO by a handful of major > engines, each based > > on different methods of spidering, indexing etc. Some > spider-based, some > > based on keywords, some hand-edited, some automatic etc > etc. What one > engine > > misses, another will find. We all serve the punters best by > giving them a > > healthy choice. > > That's a fair assumption. > > Plus, within Freenet, there's the additional complication of network > unreliability. One search engine may have found content that > another one > couldn't retrieve due to failed routing (unless you have > costly distributed, > redundant verification). > > > Stefan, there's no way I want to drive your or anyone > else's portal out of > > usage. Keep going with Freegle. > > OK, then no war, glad to hear that *g*. > > Seriously now, I don't want to build or defend a "monopoly" > in any way. I > was just a little bit surprised when your announcement of a > Freenet search > engine very similar to Freegle came out of nowhere. > > > > Do you plan to add in-Freenet searching? > > > > Sure do. > > This will involve distributing a local prog (binaries for windows, > modified > > ht://dig source distro for Linux), plus a freesite > containing the latest > > Harpoon database. Include a prog which automatically > downloads the search > > database periodically, and Bob's your uncle :) > > Nice idea, I was planning to do that too, but didn't have the > time yet... > > > > And what about all the other nifty features that Freegle already > > > incorporates? (SCNR...) > > > > These are Freegle's claim to fame. > > > > Harpoon on the other hand features: > > 1) boolean search > > Freegle has that too, thanks to Lucene. I forgot to add it to > the search > guide. > > > 2) only displays results for retrievable pages > > All content on Freegle is verified. Some files may be quite old though > (should probably display the verification date). > > > 3) excludes the millions of defunct single-file keys (all > those goddam > KSKs, > > CHKs, SSKs etc, 95+% of which fail) > > Yeah, a "freesite-only" filter is a nice idea. Freesites are the most > vibrant part of Freenet. > > -Stefan > > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat > _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
