[45498] in Cypherpunks
Re: DEC Alta Vista
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JaDe)
Sat Dec 16 17:31:10 1995
From: jadestar@netcom.com (JaDe)
To: joelm@eskimo.com (Joel McNamara)
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 14:18:42 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512161557.HAA25530@mail.eskimo.com> from "Joel McNamara" at Dec 16, 95 07:53:31 am
>
> Check out Digital's new Web and newsgroup search engine at:
>
> http://www.altavista.digital.com/
>
> Makes OpenText, Lycos, etc. look like turtles.
>
> Crypto-relevance: The spider they used appears to have fully indexed the
> HTML Cypherpunk list archive. Extremely fast searches on your favorite
> topics...
>
> Joel
I'm impressed. I accessed it in Lynx and it was
*perfect* -- not a single inline <IMG> without an
appropriate Alt= attribute.
As a quick test I did a search on something that I
new I'd posted to the comp.lang.awk newsgroups within
that last couple of days. It found them almost
instantly (except that it was apparently arranged
chronologically -- so I had to hunt through several pages
of [Next Set of Matches] links to find my stuff.
(Sorry no cypher relevance I can add to this -- but
put that URL in your bookmarks folks).
