hmm... i checked dmoz.org, noble idea, but a lot of hardwork, and it might fail in the longrun. There is one major hurdle in its future, since lot of people are adding content to web everyday and most of them are not following any guideline, so it is: 1. very difficult for a small subset of humans to catalog for all of the internet-publishers. 2. it is unfair, in the name of free/opensource, to expect a subset of people to clean others' mess.
Back to the original topic: For one thing, Perhaps one part of the problem can be solved very easily. Since "every" document created on any OS has date and timestamp attached to it. AND, most of the publishing on web is on Apache, what if the basic behavior of apache is set to read this info, and show document/page creation and modification date on top/in the beginning, of the 'web-page/document'. And it should be available to the search engines as small lightweight string as well? technical papers and HOWTO's relevance is actually the relevance of their content, with passing of time. So, to intelligently figure that out is going to be too resource consuming for the computing in general. ultimately humans will have to follow some documenting guidelines to keep information useful and 'at our fingertips'. Else it(information) will be like it is now, scattered and lost in web-space. *and hence, google's search engine if does not change with time, will be a thing of past within next 4 years. Thank you. -BG --- Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > badeguruji wrote: > > ... > > just making it a habit to add the "date and > version" > > on top will make it easy to 'index the web', and > will > > help the newcomer to understand and decide... > > ... > > There are a lot of people who should know better who > do not do that, > regardless of the benefits. > > Probably the best bet would be to find how people > are making the > documents and see if the tools' creators cannot be > convinced to make the > tool default to add a date / time stamp. > > I've written to a few authors and asked when they > first published > material. Perhaps it is time for an all-out > campaign to tidy up legacy > documents. > > > -Lars > > ________________________________ ~~Kalyan-mastu~~
