On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, John Smith wrote:
The second thing, and most important, is that web search engines need to index *every* page, and allow the topical/categorization system as a way to further limit searchs.
You can't make the web search engines do that. It's a free country.
It's just a matter of convincing the major search engines to use this system over some others, and to change their opinions on indexing non-rated sites. The only problem with rogue indexers is that the drive space for the index is just enormous (think about how many pages there are on the net, just on the web, ignoring Usenet entirely... I think most of the serach engines store at least the first 100 bytes or so of each page, plus all the indexing... it's rather big..) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ryan Anderson - <Pug Majere> "Who knows, even the horse might sing" Wayne State University - CULMA "May you live in interesting times.." randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu Ohio = VYI of the USA PGP Fingerprint - 7E 8E C6 54 96 AC D9 57 E4 F8 AE 9C 10 7E 78 C9 -----------------------------------------------------------------------