I agree with many here that the analysis in the article described is not much to talk about, and yeah not much use except for generating some cool fractalized images, but the basic precept behind their development may be the only real way of performing a true mapping of the Net's shape and growth, something that will be important in the years to come.
You can't build a useful map of the Internet's structure in the way you map the streets that wind through your town. Future search tools will require a fair amount of intelligence not in the way they go about a search, but in they way they 'think' about a search (there is a difference). Topographical mapping -- not index cataloging -- will help developers figure out these ways of thinking.
Two or three of the top search engines cover only 15% of the Web (there is one that reportedly hits near 30%, but its name escapes me), and most cover fairly much the same areas. Calculating search sites would generate some interesting examinations towards redundancy. But in any case 150 million pages is not really a lot anymore.
Also, one must factor in whatever percentage exists for pages/sites that may link to the outside, but are not linked back to. These one-way linkages would spread off a click average.
I am just as much of an ST fan as the next pointy eared fool, all the way back to the original, but I have to ask if I'm the only feeling like it's time this all saw the closing curtain. Doesn't the phrase "water from a stone" come into anyone else's mind reading about this?
I mean COME ON, Not one Aussie ISP wanted this, so they've found an interesting way of putting the responsibility back in the hands of the ones it belonged to in the first place. Once they ge t the picture about how nearly impossible it is to filter the Net of "bad stuff", they may just vote the morons who created this law right out of office.
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What is the point of providing commentary like this if the readers demand no anonymity from the writer? Not very ironic that an AC would ask.
Michael, stay in the background!
For you Van Vogt fans...
I agree with many here that the analysis in the article described is not much to talk about, and yeah not much use except for generating some cool fractalized images, but the basic precept behind their development may be the only real way of performing a true mapping of the Net's shape and growth, something that will be important in the years to come.
You can't build a useful map of the Internet's structure in the way you map the streets that wind through your town. Future search tools will require a fair amount of intelligence not in the way they go about a search, but in they way they 'think' about a search (there is a difference). Topographical mapping -- not index cataloging -- will help developers figure out these ways of thinking.
Two or three of the top search engines cover only 15% of the Web (there is one that reportedly hits near 30%, but its name escapes me), and most cover fairly much the same areas. Calculating search sites would generate some interesting examinations towards redundancy. But in any case 150 million pages is not really a lot anymore.
Also, one must factor in whatever percentage exists for pages/sites that may link to the outside, but are not linked back to. These one-way linkages would spread off a click average.
If you remove search engines, you're removing a major part of the natural growth of the Net itself.
Gee, would be hard sorting through all the AC entries...
Major Kira
It's a shame all of this will come to pass, eh?
I am just as much of an ST fan as the next pointy eared fool, all the way back to the original, but I have to ask if I'm the only feeling like it's time this all saw the closing curtain. Doesn't the phrase "water from a stone" come into anyone else's mind reading about this?
I love it!
I mean COME ON, Not one Aussie ISP wanted this, so they've found an interesting way of putting the responsibility back in the hands of the ones it belonged to in the first place. Once they ge t the picture about how nearly impossible it is to filter the Net of "bad stuff", they may just vote the morons who created this law right out of office.
Good luck my fellow ISP mates!
I'll assume you mean porting to SH3-based WinCE devices. Don't know how far along they are, but you can keep any eye out from here:
http://linuxsh3.cjb.net
Anyone can put paint to canvas. Some can make it look like something. Very few can turn it into art. But in the end, Art is where you find it.
But really, I think someone spent more time digging up the links in the article than thinking through what he was linking... I mean writing about.