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Subject: Re: Web-based archives considered harmful?
From: Manar Hussain <manar @ ivision . co . uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:12:49 +0100 (BST)
To: list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <v0300780bae8ac02107be@[165.227.113.247]>

My point exactly - said longer (and better :).

>I'd like to take a different view of this. I think it is the responsibility
>of the *search services* to make the results they give more readable, not

[ ... ]

>immature Web search technologies. Let it all be indexed and force the
>indexers to do a better job of displaying their results. Believe me, the
>indexing site that is able to say "2500 matches, displayed for you in a
>reasonable fashion" will draw users to it quickly, and the other search
>sites will follow suit.
>
>--Paul Hoffman
>--Internet Mail Consortium
>



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