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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:19:03PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote: > > What Vadim is trying to explain to you is that this does not scale(or at > least not with the current system.) When I type in the world "apple" do I > want information on the fruit, the computer company, or the record > company(or something else that contains/is related to the string "apple"?) > > Add to this the complexity of multilingualism, where a string of > characters can have a reasonably deterministic meaning or set of meanings > in one language, and a completely different set of meanings in > another. > > > Search engines are horribly inaccurate for trying to reach any > > single particular page, unless it's so bizarre that you only get a dozen > > search results. I would definitely not advocate search engines to replace > > the current DNS system, unless a whole new generation of search engines > > was created that could effectively deduce exactly where the user _really_ > > wanted to go, accurately, every time (which is what DNS currently does). > > So tell me when I type in the word "apple" where exactly do I want to go? Ok this is getting downright rediculous. There is a reason we HAVE search engines, to find the links between content names and destination names. If I want to order an apple I don't goto www.apple.com. These levels of naming exist for a reason. If you want to find content about apples you goto Google and search for apples, if you want to goto Apple Computer you type www.apple.com, and if you want to goto a specific server you type 17.254.0.91. If you cannot figure out what to type or where to type it, this is not my problem. If this thread stops right now I will pay everyone who participated in it up to this point $1000 US each. Thank you. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
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