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To: d:oug who wrote (716)	8/26/2002 7:40:16 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1003

I would just design an SI-like interface, and import the data. As you know, I like people being able to make their interface whatever they want it to be. Then the combined site(s) would both respond to both URLs. The basic search engine here, though, is written the way it should be. Not sure why it's so unreliable. It'd sometimes lag in the old days if there was a lot of traffic, but I don't remember it completely failing. Anyway, from a design perspective, the engine works the best way one should work for this kind of data. The user interface is seriously lacking, though. I've got that beat just a bit. I'll need to write my own search engine instead of using what SQL Server has in it. It's powerful, but really expensive. If I do a search for the same term on both sites, mine responds quicker, but SI has about 36 times as many messages as I do, too.