FAST has long been at this kind of thing: some years back, they started pushing their "shop your boss" campaign, whereby they encouraged people to report their employers if they were using privated software.
They ran a series of ads in computer magazines ten years or so back, including a rather controversial comic strip where two schoolchildren reported their (mean and unpopular, natch) maths teacher to FAST for a cash reward. IIRC, the teachers' union wasn't best pleased with that one.
All the Web doesn't use the pattern matching chip, it's all done in software on 50 Dell servers running BSD. What's new is the 200M documents and the official announcement (it's only been up on trial until now).
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All the Web doesn't use the pattern matching chip, it's all done in software on 50 Dell servers running BSD. What's new is the 200M documents and the official announcement (it's only been up on trial until now).
Eyvind Bernhardsen
Searchenginewatch's current size comparison is correct as of July 1, but All the Web hasn't been running with 200M documents for that long.
Eyvind Bernhardsen
All the Web is not Lycos and has nothing to do with Lycos.
Eyvind Bernhardsen