Re: I Love GMail!

Dan wrote:
> Oh, so you're taking requests now?  <g>

Well, yeah ... always.

> How 'bout a way to be able to search *with* special characters?

Ok, done.  The index is rebuilding now.  Check again in about 2 hours or
so.  Let me know how it works for you.

> BTW, is ht://Dig no longer being maintained?  The website is still
> there, but the last update was June 2004.  I know their releases
> appear to be fairly spread out, but 20 months seems to be more than a
> hiatus.)

I suspect it is no longer being maintained.  Not that I really blame
them ... search technology is SO difficult ... look at Google.

> And how 'bout phrase searches?

That's in the last beta ... but my experiences with the beta were less
than stellar.

One of the big problems with search engines is that it takes such a long
time to build the next, the test cycles tend to be long.

If I could afford a Google appliance, I would jump on it in a second ...
but the Google mini costs $3k (with $1k / year maintenance) and is
limited to 100k documents.  The midrange.com archive is about 350k
documents right now.  The next tier up costs $10k.


david