Re: How to know connected or not?
Kat,
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From: <gertie at ad-tek.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: How to know connected or not?
> On 4 Jun 2001, at 1:38, Gerardo wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > I've also used GO Express Search, a downloadable metacrawler that
queries in
> > the background, so every result you get to view doesn't appear to come
from
> > the Internet but from localhost (port 1234).
>
> What?!? You didn't write one in Eu??
>
> Kat
I said I used it. Used to use it (aagh!). Some time ago. It worked more or
less fine, but it had one huge drawback: you couldn't add search engines.
Commercial reasons, I guess, quite respectable (I like to eat, too), and it
was free. But there wasn't even an offer for a nonfree configurable upgrade.
I _might_ have paid a few bucks for something that really worked my way, not
theirs.
And, no, I didn't write one. I thought about it, and the problem was not Eu,
but my crazy wandering mind. Say I access NorthernLight. Fine and easy. They
don't require syntax, special symbols, nothing. Just send them a few
strings, more or less logically related, and they'll do the rest.
And they do it quite well. So well, indeed, that I'd be tempted to automate
an additional interface for their Custom Folders, then search-within-search,
and so on. That's a problem with me: I don't know where to stop. Though, now
that I think of it, I guess I'm in good company here ...
Gerardo
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