The circle is complete. What short memories people have!
At least *I* am old enough to remember that this technology has already been implemented and is now dead because relevancy doesn't scale to an adversarial Internet.
This sort of system used to be called Archie, remember? Hello?
It stopped being relevant because it was supplanted by something new called a <finger quote gesture> "search engine" </finger quote gesture>. The problem with Archie was anyone could claim to have just what you were looking for, so they did. Duh.
Now Andreeson et al say this is great because it "handles dynamic content", which of course "search engines can't do". The dynamic content they refer to is a spec sheet for a computer that Dell supposes you are looking for. So the point is that Dell can just *create* the spec sheet you're looking for in response to your search, right? Sounds spam-proof to me!
I talked to a VA salesman, formerly of Corel, who had sold us many Netwinders, and he told me about all the top engineers (San Mehat eg) from Corel who jumped to VA. He mentioned some secret hires, notably "a prominent Australian Linux guru", nuff said.
They like VA. So do I, especially when they get some laptops!
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The circle is complete. What short memories people have!
At least *I* am old enough to remember that this technology has already been
implemented and is now dead because relevancy doesn't scale to an adversarial
Internet.
This sort of system used to be called Archie, remember? Hello?
It stopped being relevant because it was supplanted by something new called a
<finger quote gesture> "search engine" </finger quote gesture>. The problem with Archie was
anyone could claim to have just what you were looking for, so they did. Duh.
Now Andreeson et al say this is great because it "handles dynamic content",
which of course "search engines can't do". The dynamic content they refer to is
a spec sheet for a computer that Dell supposes you are looking for. So the point
is that Dell can just *create* the spec sheet you're looking for in response to
your search, right? Sounds spam-proof to me!
Duh.
I talked to a VA salesman, formerly of Corel, who had sold us many Netwinders, and he told me about all the top engineers (San Mehat eg) from Corel who jumped to VA. He mentioned some secret hires, notably "a prominent Australian Linux guru", nuff said.
They like VA. So do I, especially when they get some laptops!
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