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To: cm who wrote (6100)	5/14/1998 8:40:00 PM
From: cm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9343

<<OT:>> In Tonight's Final Episode of Seinfeld... * George gets bought by XCIT for $330 million. Initially, analysts think it's a good strategic fit for XCIT and like the fact that unlimited access to the Castanzas is thrown in... along with online marketing rights to The Bro. Then, on second thought, analysts think the deal was too pricey, stupid, even unthinkable; and BT Alex Brown immediately downgrades XCIT from SCREAMING SUPERSTELLAR BUY--SELL YOUR MOTHER-IN-LAW'S HOUSE FOR THE OCTOBER CALLS...to a mere SHORT-TERM ACCUMULATE AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. * Elaine launches JPeterman Online, but their server crashes as a result of an orchestrated "bonk" creating a false run on Andean tree-scraping slippers and hand-crafted Ovarian Biological Clocks. * "Hel-lo, New-man," becomes the King of e-mail spam. * Kramer invents a search engine to find misplaced socks in laundromats. * And Jerry wakes up in bed next to an even huskier- voiced Susan Pleshette... and realizes it all was a dream. Best Regards On A Slow News Night, SEEKERs c m

To: cm who wrote (6100)	5/18/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: cm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9343

FWIW, A Little Something From Steve Kirsch's Homepage... What follows is a very informal overview (I gather it was written by Steve) of their Java Search Engine Project. ************ Infoseek's Java Search Engine Project Why? Our current search engine (written in C) is designed for extreme speed and relevance Java search engine is for everything else, where we are willing to sacrifice the "extreme speed" requirement. Java search engine is designed to be: The most powerful search engine ever written Complete set of search operators and features Extensible by users Portable Compatible (e.g., can be imbedded in a database) Features small footprint (1Mb in size) huge limits: 4 Billion docs speed: we can code critical routines in C if needed since underlying data structures are purposely designed for efficiency (e.g., word alignment rather than byte alignment) modularity: clean abstractions so we can change pieces of the system without affecting other parts of the system capability: all the std features of the most powerful search engine extensible: lots of hooks; public source; clean interfaces to both the normal "user API" as well as the underlying "programmer API" customizability: lots of switches (e.g., turn off stemming, turn off storing word locations, turn on special recognizers) suitable for large and small databases Java and TCP interfaces distributed searching/STARTS support (so it can be used by our upcoming distributed search clients) SQL/ODBC/JDBC interfaces (so you can issue a query using ODBC/SQL API interfaces) correctness of results (full evaluation of all relevant documents) source code provided so you can write your own extensions/customizations, e.g., hook it into your RDBMS, embed in your application, write a doc parser, write a number recognizer, write a company recognizer, etc. ÿ Java Search Engine Status It works now! Real-time indexing/searching Extensive documentation ÿ Applications Demanding environments Demanding customers like Reuters have large feature lists that no existing search engine can meet. Using Java, Reuters (and other companies like Dialog and Lexis-Nexis that have "for pay" information full text search services) can customize and enhance to meet exacting requirements Registry of third party plug-ins for sale for other demanding users Relational Database full text search plug-in Use Oracle 8.1 indexing APIs/cartridges to provide full text search in an Oracle DBMS Index any field(s) of the RDBMS Makes use of Oracle's new index organized tables to store the full text index within the Oracle database instead of the filesystem (allowing you to make use of the replication features of the database) Makes use of the imbedded Java to run right inside the database itself (new Oracle feature) Provides a higher performance, more accurate, more feature rich, and more customizable alternative to the Oracle Context solution Add on to Java DBMS's (such as Cloudscape JBMS) Netscape/Hot Java/web browsers Bundle into browser so instead of bookmarking you just click a button to "remember this page" Imbed in E-mail programs Eudora, Netscape mail, etc. Desktop Use as the engine for "desktop search" product Imbed in Infoseek Express so it automatically indexes any page you like ÿ Sample marketing strategies Source supplied Free usage if < 500 documents Encourage Java programmers to download it to index their code/documentation and incorporate into their application Set up a way for people to sell their Java Search Engine code extensions such as special recognizers, stemmers, XML parsers, etc. in Infoseek's store