New Search Engine

Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:02:15 -0300 (ADT)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jeff Warnica wrote:

> 
> > I see two (or three) distinct functions/software entities...
> >
> > 1) the locating (1a) classification of documents, and
> 
> 1a) is something that will only be able to be performed by people. AI is
> nowhere near the contextual critical mass to automate this.

I'm pretty sure Industry Canada has funded some promising work in this 
area... (document classification)...
 
> >
> > With respect to CSuite it should honour the convention of indexing
> > UpperCase Directories and ignoring lowercase directories...
> 
> This is fine, but only if we plan on ignoring the other 99.9% of the web.

You're missing the point... it should be capable of doing this for _our_ 
CSuite sites...

> 
> (big snip)
> 
> Your making the assumption that the 'indexer' in crawler/indexer/searcher
> has something to do with making human readable indexes. It dosent. And
> nothing that exists (outside Ft. Mead) is capable of doing that.

I don't think that I'm making that assumption at all... I'm offering a 
'wish list' of functionality... how, if ever, that functionality is 
expressed is something else again but I do know that there is work being 
done in these areas that might address these wishes...

dlp

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