Re: Search engine for FoRK

Keith Dawson (dawson@world.std.com)
Wed, 2 Jul 1997 18:54:00 -0400

At 6:14p 7/2/97, Rohit Khare wrote:
>AltaVista only claims to have indexed 40 pages from XeNT. So, the
>hunch is that AV is coping with the load by capping the number of pages
>from a site. W3.org, for example, has only 600 reported hits.

This was news last March when the webmaster at the Federation of
American Scientists found out Alta Vista's dirty little secret and
his public plaint

http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/talkback/talkback_11638.html

was picked up by ZnNet's Anchor Desk.

http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/talkback/talkback_11638.html

Alta Vista's architect Louis Monier replied publicly to calm the
flap.

http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/talkback/talkback_13066.html

I wrote about the teakettle tempest in TBTF for 4/4/97.

http://www.tbtf.com/archive/04-04-97.html#s08

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