Re: Search engine for FoRK

Keith Dawson (dawson@world.std.com)
Wed, 2 Jul 1997 22:53:16 -0400

>Alta Vista is just pathetic, and I've locked myself in by learning their
>searching grammar. Has anyone tried Hotbot? Is it better?

It's better. It's current, nearly. Searching grammars are easy,
I just learned them all as the new engines appeared, though the
metasearch tools make the question almost moot. Have you seen
Dogpile (nee Arfie)?

http://www.dogpile.com/
http://www.tbtf.com/archive/11-12-96.html#s11

I've also had good luck with Metacrawler. Its output formatting
is slicker.

http://www.metacrawler.com/