Hi,
I got this from Steve Gipson (author of SpinRite) and thought some of
you might be interested since you're Linux fans. I haven't tried the search
engine that he's talkng about so I have no idea if his claims are factual.
Joe
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>Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 19:57:16 -0800
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>Subject: Steve Gibson's NEWS of a Stunning NEW Search Engine ...
>
>Hello,
>
>We've all experienced the problem:
>
>The automated search engines (like Alta Vista) return 54,321
>items "in no particular order" (many of which are porn sites).
>But the human-indexed search services (like Yahoo) often can't
>find what you want because they're only able to index a small
>fraction of the entire web (since they're human.) So you're left
>with the uneasy (but probably accurate) sense that what you want
>is out there somewhere ... but you're no closer to finding it.
>
>The truly amazing new solution:
>
>A couple of extremely bright guys at Stanford University solved
>the Web Search Engine Problem once and for all, creating the last
>search system you will ever need: http://google.com/
>
>What's their secret? They use Linux-based web robots to explore
>and index the entire Web. But then they determine the QUALITY of
>each resulting link based upon the QUALITY of the OTHER sites
>that link INTO that site. So, THE ONLY WAY a site can be highly
>rated, under Google, is if other highly rated sites have links
>pointing into it! It's brilliant.
>
>This simple concept works SO WELL that every single person I've
>told about Google has switched permanently to using Google as
>their Web search engine of choice. It really is that good!
>
>And of course it's free! ... so give it a shot for yourself!:
>
> <a href= "http://google.com" >Google</a>
>
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Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 12:05:53 BST