From: Larry Klaes (lklaes@bbn.com)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 04:32:30 PDT
Please, someone explain to me how this relates to Transhumanity,
thank you.
Larry
At 04:56 AM 06/27/2000 -0700, eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>From: Rohit Khare <Rohit@KnowNow.com>
>
>I'm not really thrilled, but it is interesting to see that both
>cachers (Dynamai) and searchers (here, Infrasearch) are beginning to
>cope with dynamcially-generated content. That said, the real promise
>of real-time indexing is real-time notification (iPal, anyone?) --
>Rohit
>
>gag: http://elitist.xcfventures.com/window.jpg
>
>briefly
>
>InfraSearch is 100% Gnutella. The only thing not Gnutella is your web
browser.
>
>The fully-distributed system comprises several major components, each
>of which can be made redundant and load-balanced with extreme ease
>through Gnutella technology.
>
>It's entirely pay-as-you-go. No huge up-front expenditures. This
>entire prototype runs on a Pentium III machine costing only a few
>thousand dollars.
>
>We don't believe a million-dollar search server is a good use of your
>resources, so InfraSearch is designed to run on hardware that fits on
>your child's credit card.
>
>briefly
>
>Just launched your online store? Congratulations: You've created
>another black hole on the web.
>
>Fortunately, there's InfraSearch. It unlocks the door for users
>searching for what you offer. It lets them peer into your dynamic
>content.
>
>InfraSearch is not just another way to crawl and index. InfraSearch
>changes search from a passive thing into an active thing. It changes
>search from an HTML thing into a semantic thing. Best of all, it
>changes search into a thing you, the information provider, control.
>
>Search as infrastructure. Only InfraSearch does it.
>
>InfraSearch Search engines
>search your database Yes No
>allows you to respond to queries the way you want Yes No
>allows you to respond competitively Yes No
>search method Whatever you choose Crawling
>search data Semantic HTML
>who controls the search You do They do
>
>InfraSearch can...
>
>InfraSearch enables information providers to answer searches. After
>all, who knows how to answer a question about news better than a news
>specialist? Who can answer a question about red roses better than a
>florist?
>
>So that's the short of it: Let the people who know the answers answer
>the way they want. Let the user experience begin at the search engine.
>
>
>
>search as infrastructure
>
>It's a strange idea to throw up a web site and hope the search
>crawlers come around and index it. It doesn't make sense to leave
>that to chance.
>
>What makes sense is taking charge and driving traffic by controlling
>the way searches are answered. You own the data, you should manage
>the searching. It's the only part of the user experience that
>companies don't even try to manage. It's just outsourced to search
>providers which have little interest in indexing one site better than
>the next. External visibility is the most overlooked part of any web
>site.
>
>You manage your database, you manage your web server farm, you manage
>the content production... You manage everything...except your
>external visibility. It's time to manage that too. Without it, your
>site is just another black hole.
>
>search engines can't...
>
>To current-generation search engines dynamic content (anything with a
>question mark in the URL) is invisible. Your favorite online store,
>your favorite online news source: invisible.
>
>Search engines appear to take about four weeks to crawl a URL you
>submit. Suppose war breaks out. Even if there is an obscure news site
>out there that a search engine can index, you won't find anything
>about that war for a month.
>
>Search engines index the words on a page, not their meaning. So when
>you search for "canon eos-3" on a search engine, you get a bunch of
>hits about the camera. Suppose Epinions.com could answer. They could
>tell you how much Epinions users liked it. Suppose Nikon could
>answer. They could tell you about their F-100 camera at the same
>price point.
>
>Remember: it's not because the search engines don't want to do all
>that. It's because they can't.
>
>
>
>technology
>
>Search engines work by "crawling". This technology has been perfected
>over the past six years. A search engine starts at some URL (or some
>set of URLs) and basically clicks on every link on every page that it
>can click on.
>
>The crawler stores every page it sees on a huge disk. The data is
>then indexed. In short, web search engines try to download the entire
>web and make sense of it. A lot has gone into the process to make it
>efficient and yield the most fruit, but there are inherent
>shortcomings.
>
>Part of the reason is that no matter how much technology is thrown at
>the effort to crawl the web, crawling is just too slow to keep up
>with the web's pace of change.
>
>More than that, the reason crawling is outmoded is because modern
>content providers use a growing amount of dynamic content. So, HTML
>pages with forms and URLs with question marks aren't crawled.
>Unfortunately sites' crown jewels are increasingly stored in their
>databases, hidden behind those strange URLs that crawlers are afraid
>to visit.
>
>
>
>InfraSearch works
>
>InfraSearch fixes all that.
>
>InfraSearch uses Gnutella distributed information search technology
>to distribute searches to information sources. InfraSearch Agents
>running at information providers provide an interface between
>InfraSearch.com and information providers' databases, flat files,
>HTML pages, or whatever. Information providers can make use of
>whatever data they want to answer queries however they want.
>
>Click to learn a little about InfraSearch's architecture.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>InfraSearch asks those who know and lets them answer as they want
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>If an information provider can answer your question, it will answer
>your question in its own special way.
>
>Search for "Mercedes-Benz E55" and maybe you'll get a result from BMW
>telling you about their new M5.
>
>Search for "MSFT". If a broker answers, it might look something like this:
>
>
> MSFT 70 +0.25 Quote is delayed at least 15 minutes.
>
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>
>dynamic URLs in hits?!
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Another powerful thing InfraSearch can do is allow content providers
>to answer searches with fully dynamic URLs. Search for "mustang drag
>race" and get a customized link from Summit Racing to a page listing
>all the parts to make your 5.0 a 9.0 second car.
>
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>
>no dead links!
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>
>And...since answers are based on current data: no dead links!
>
>The information you want, up-to-date, and presented in a way which
>makes it easy to find exactly the information you were searching for.
>
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>prototype
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>
>InfraSearch is a prototype at this stage. You know what that means.
>
>It's the idea that counts. Real-time distributed search is the next
>thing, and InfraSearch is the first demonstration that it can do
>useful things.
>
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