FAST Search (was Re: google refining scoring with user input?)

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* Hugo Haas <[email protected]> [2001-03-22 08:15-0500]
> On a somewhat related note, I noticed that Google has not updated its
> index for more than a month now. I use a search box for larve.net[1]
> and noted that recent pages, although fetched by Googlebot a month
> ago, were not indexed. I noted the problem for the W3C site too for
> more than a month.
>
> They are not indexing URIs containing an '@' character, have done a
> bad job IMO about the deja.com takeover, are now not updating their
> indexes. Google is still the best search engine, but I am less
> enthusiastic about it than before.
>
> All The Web / FAST Search[2] OTOH looks better and better to me.

So I finally got tired of Google and I now use FAST Search as the
search engine for larve.net (see [1]).

I have also made a search box[4] for the fogo archives.

Maybe I will switch completely to FAST Search soon.

 1. http://larve.net/#search
 2. http://www.alltheweb.com/
 4. http://larve.net/2001/03/fogo_search
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