Re: Search Engine

[Martin P Holland <nospam [at] noether.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, you wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Martin P Holland wrote:

>> I use Ht/Dig with the offline web browser wwwoffle. The combination is really
>> excellent. I have lots of interesting stuff in my cache and using htdig I can
>> find things really quickly.
>Now that is an interesting idea! Why not write up how you do it for the
>Linux section in one of the mags (PC Plus and Computer Shopper both now
>have one, probably other too.
>
>Better still consider making your glue of the two systems together into a
>standard package and get the Linux distributors to take is so that it
>becomes a standard 'smart' feature of Linux.

Actually the gluing was already done by the author of wwwoffle! He includes
a web interface to the htdig search engine and scripts to run to update the
database of what's in the cache.

atb
Martin
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