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Building a Bigger Search Engine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the size-isn't-everything dept.

skreuzer writes "Wired is running a story about a distributed web crawler called Grub. People who choose to download and run the client will assist in building the Web's largest, most accurate database of URLs. This database will be used to improve existing search engines' results by increasing the frequency at which sites are crawled and indexed. Conceivably, Grub's distributed network could enable state information to be gathered on every document on the Internet, each and every day."

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  1. R&B legend Earl King dead at 69 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By Associated Press, 4/18/2003 23:50
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) Earl King, the prolific songwriter and guitarist responsible for some of the most enduring and idiosyncratic compositions in the history of R&B, died Thursday from diabetes-related complications. He was 69.

    Over his 50-year career, King wrote and recorded hundreds of songs.

    His best-known compositions include the Mardi Gras standards ''Big Chief'' and ''Street Parade''; the rollicking ''Come On (Let the Good Times Roll),'' which both Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan recorded; and ''Trick Bag,'' the quintessential New Orleans R&B story-song.

    '''Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)' might be the one that people know, but I wish the world would hear more of his songs,'' said Mac ''Dr. John'' Rebennack, a longtime friend, fan and collaborator of King. ''He approached songs from different angles, from different places in life.''

    In his prime, he was an explosive performer, tearing sinewy solos from his Stratocaster guitar and wearing his hair in an elaborate, upraised coif.

    King's songwriting was informed by syncopated New Orleans beats and his interest in a broad range of subjects, from medieval history to the vagaries of the human heart and his own so-called ''love syndromes.''

    ''Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it,'' King said in a 1993 interview. ''I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.''

    Born Earl Silas Johnson IV, King described himself as a ''nervous energy person'' who constantly needed to be engaged in some creative pursuit.

    He cut his first singles in the early 1950s, taking on the stage name ''Earl King'' at the suggestion of a record promoter.

    Scenes and acquaintances from his life often found their way into his lyrics with little editing. A story King's grandmother told about his father, a blues pianist who died when King was a boy, inspired ''Trick Bag.''

    In the song, the protagonist sings to his wayward significant other, ''I saw you kissing Willie across the fence, I heard you telling Willie I don't have no sense/The way you been actin' is such a drag, you done put me in a trick bag.''

    Funeral arrangements had not been finalized late Friday evening.

  2. I have it installed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as my bootloader, but I'm strongly opposed to using it as an Internet search engine. I really don't think it can hold a candle to Google, or even gopher for that matter.

  3. Interesting quote. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "It's innovative, but the much larger puzzle is a lot harder to solve," he said. "But they've just come out of beta, so IF I EVER MEET YOU I WILL KICK YOUR ASS."

    1. Re:Interesting quote. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      shutup niglet. talk about a good use of a 30 30 rizzound.

  4. GRUB!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great
    Rubbing
    Ugly
    Bellyache

    GRUB!!!!

  5. ...grub? by incrustwetrust · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i want grub! does it have to be refridgerated?

  6. It's "GRUB" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (singing)

    It's GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB - GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB!

    I'm here with ITALIAN GRUB! It's really tasty. In fact, it's some of the best around 'cause it's -

    GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB - GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB!

    I'm here with AMERICAN GRUB! Hotdogs, Hamburgers, and more. It's grub americana, yeah -

    GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB - GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB!

    I'm here with POLISH GRUB! Sausage and other treats. Stop by here for appitizers, cause it's

    GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB - GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB, GRUB!

    Thank You for coming to Grub Fest 2003!!!!!

  7. Re:Haiku :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I'm guessing that one good joke in your "currency" equals at least three bad ones?

  8. 50 Ways to Leave your Lover and get a -1 Mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Linux sucks
    2. BSD sucks
    3. Open-source sucks
    4. Free software sucks
    5. GNU Sucks
    6. goatse.cx
    7. Microsoft Rules
    8. Patriot Act Rules
    9...

  9. Re:Yeah what's the corporation bashing? by knowledgepeacewi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Many people around here work for the Government.

    As to whats wrong with Corporations and Big Business:
    in one word: Enron

    In more words that that:
    http://www.corpwatch.org/