[ILUG] Personal web indexer

Kenn Humborg kenn at bluetree.ie
Wed Mar 22 10:43:28 GMT 2000


> >  In that case, it would rock. To make it extra cool, though it
> would have
> > to keep a log of what you are reading, and then index each & every page,
> > with htDig or something when the machine isn't in use. Have a nice web
> > front end running to do the search. Then, you could bookmark it right
> > beside Alta Vista.
>
> Didn't Digital (as was) release something with the AltaVista brand
> name, that was a personal search engine? I can only vaguely recollect
> what it did, but when I first read Kenn's idea, I was sure I'd heard
> it somewhere before. Could just be my addled brain 8)

That indexed all the files on your local machine (or your network
if you payed quite a bit more), rather than just the pages you've
visited.

Kenn






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