Archive for December, 2004

Conversation Engine Thoughts

December 30th, 2004

Diego has been writing about a project of his the “Conversation Engine”. I thought I would add a few thoughts to the fray that might help.
For discovery a simple RPC-Ping can be used, this can then add that site onto the spidering queue. To maintain the small scale test of the engine to begin with […]


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December 29th, 2004

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Word Ordering in Search Engines

December 10th, 2004

The way Google (and I’m sure most other search engines) use the ordering of the search terms is quite interesting. I have a feeling it may be a by-effect of the way they implement the filtering of results within their databases. To improve results, a person can reorder their search terms, but does the search […]


Microsoft’s Standards Anti-lockin

December 2nd, 2004

There has been talk (here and here) about fixing the standards support in IE. Microsoft thinks they have a lock-in with their ActiveX support and how they support the webstandards and they don’t want to compromise that.
I think the opposite is true, if they don’t fix it, customers (enterprise and consumers) will move to the […]