At 03:25 PM 3/30/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>As an aside, it seems that google (and other search engines) are vying
>for first place as replacement for URLs as first line content
>location. I looked recently at the web logs on my web pages over the
>last year or so and I think > 50% of queries came from search engines
>(from referrer field). The search terms (also in the referrer field
>with google) mostly looked purposeful ("hashcash adam", "perl-rsa"
>etc, though there were a few ill-thought out or name-clash search
>terms "making hash" who probably didn't find what they were looking
>for ;-)
>
>This seems like a success factor for a would be storage-surface with
>ambitions to replace and subsume the web -- any such system has to
>have a really good google competitive search mechanism, or have a way
>for it's content to be indexed by google.
Bingo! I brought this up with the Mojo team. One of the nice features of
MN was that content was addressed as a URL. I thought that if we built a
web site that detected the presence of a spyder from Google or other major
search engine it could dynamically generate content pages for subsequent
indexing. Non-spyder visitors would get a simple greeting page. Other
would be free to do likewise, as some had done to offer Web access to P2P.
The way MN URLs were constructed, if a user had MN SW installed the URL
would directly invoke a search. If they didn't have MN SW they would be
taken to the download page.
steve
