From: jadestar@netcom.com (JaDe)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 06:56:40 +0800
To: joelm@eskimo.com (Joel McNamara)
Subject: Re: DEC Alta Vista
In-Reply-To: <199512161557.HAA25530@mail.eskimo.com>
Message-ID: <199512162218.OAA06706@netcom21.netcom.com>
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> 
> Check out Digital's new Web and newsgroup search engine at:
> 
> http://www.altavista.digital.com/
> 
> Makes OpenText, Lycos, etc. look like turtles.
> 
> Crypto-relevance: The spider they used appears to have fully indexed the
> HTML Cypherpunk list archive.  Extremely fast searches on your favorite
> topics...
> 
> Joel

	I'm impressed.  I accessed it in Lynx and it was
	*perfect* -- not a single inline <IMG> without an 
	appropriate Alt= attribute.

	As a quick test I did a search on something that I 
	new I'd posted to the comp.lang.awk newsgroups within
	that last couple of days.  It found them almost
	instantly (except that it was apparently arranged 
	chronologically -- so I had to hunt through several pages
	of [Next Set of Matches] links to find my stuff.

	(Sorry no cypher relevance I can add to this -- but 
	put that URL in your bookmarks folks).