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I believe IBM did something similar during the 96 Olympics. My foggy memory serves me as You hit the front door page. Each mirror did a performance measurement to you (traceroute, ping time, etc) By the time you were 2 - 3 pages into the site, you were redirected to the "best" mirror, based on the above. Kind of cool, especially if IBM thought of it :) Eric At 10:16 AM 9/18/97 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >> See, the really neat thing about the 'net is it *removes* the geographical >> locality as a barrier. >> >> People have interests, very specific interests. The number of people >> interested in following alt.barney.die.die.die are geographically >> dispersed, but the Internet brings them together in a virtual community. >> >> Search engines, as primitive as they are now, make it much easier to find >> whatever specific item you're looking for, and odds are overwhelming that >> it's not on your neighbors server. > >So perhaps what we need is a way for search engines to determine what's >"close" - geographically, politically, or speed-wise. This isn't particularly >easy to do, but if it was implemented and only worked, say, 15% of the time, >it'd still make things look that much faster. > > >Idea: what about a search engine that understands a BGP table? I'm thinking >that something like Hotbot, which returns search results with several places >to find the same page, goes through a process like this: > > >1) perform the query. >2) if your query returns multiple places to get the same page > a) look at the AS_PATH for the querying IP address > b) look at the AS_PATHs for the found pages > c) Determine and return the "closest" one - perhaps the one > whose AS_PATH is most like that of the querying host. > >This is a bit rough (off the top of my head, first thing in the morning), but >you could do a bunch with it. Search engines, for example, that optimize for >search speed vs. retrieval speed, come to mind. > >Anybody out there have any spare venture capital? :) > > > >eric > >> >> --- David Miller > > ============================================================================ ==== Eric Germann Computer and Communications Technologies [email protected] Van Wert, OH 45891 Phone: 419 968 2640 http://www.cctec.com Fax: 419 968 2641 Network Design, Connectivity & System Integration Services A Microsoft Solution Provider
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