Ken Hansen (khansen@njcc.com)
Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:07:13 -0500
I don't think they weed out the old, just my opinion...
Ken
khansen@njcc.com
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From: mgraffam@idsi.net <mgraffam@idsi.net>
To: axp-list@redhat.com <axp-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: altavista
>On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Wes Bauske wrote:
>
>> I thought they processed HTML into a word list for each
>> document. Probably use a sorted binary search tree against all
>> words, and also maybe eliminate uninteresting words to
>> reduce size.
>
>I agree; I figure they have to use a sorted search method.. and probably
>are really optimized insertion sort hand coded in assembler :)
>
>> Then all you need is fast disk and lots of memory.
>
>Yeah.. seems to me that some sort of fast shared disk method would be best
>here.. then you have one machine sorting in new pages, and weeding out the
>old, while having other machines search for the user.
>
>Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
>"86% of conspiracy theories have some basis in truth... but, oddly enough,
>it's that last 14% that usually gets you killed."
> --Talas (http://cadvantage.com/~algaeman/conspiracy/public.htm)
>
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