Re: Interesting opportunity

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> OK.  Now that's kinda cool... but I think we should make a note and
> not bother for now unless you see immediate usage.  Where I see that
> making a lot of sense is post-go-live, after we impliment all the
> neeto features we want, 

I agree.  

> I was thinking of taking a crack at coding a
> search engine, 

Have fun. ;-)  Seriously you should look at what the guys at www.htdig.org
are planning to do.  Some real cool stuff.  (Why develop your own when you
can better something that already exists.)

> or improving the one we have by implimenting the kind
> of technology ask.com is...

ask.com ?  Personally I think it sucks.  Never seems to figure out my
questions.  (Like:  "What is the best IMAP server" does not mean I want
reviews of PIII Computers)
 
> If you can succesfully match a question to a close approximation in a
> DB and return all articles that have been designated as relating to
> your question.... that's a powerful search... and that list of
> questions would be very useful in that case.
>
> I'm going off on a tangent... if you have other ideas, clue me in :)

Nope.  See ya on #seul at 9.

-Aaron