Warmest Greetings,

:: Friday, September 12, 2003 ::

Going out to Nutch..."Nutch could rewrite the rules of search development -- especially with an impressive roster of Internet luminaries now lining up behind it."

Ammon Johns explores what may be something to finally excited over besides Google, Yahoo! and MSN >>> Search getting boring? Not for Nutch longer.

Says Nutch, "Nutch provides a transparent alternative to commercial web search engines. Only open source search results can be fully trusted to be without bias. (Or at least their bias is public.) All existing major search engines have proprietary ranking formulas, and will not explain why a given page ranks as it does. Additionally, some search engines determine which sites to index based on payments, rather than on the merits of the sites themselves. Nutch, on the other hand, has nothing to hide and no motive to bias its results or its crawler in any way other than to try to give each user the best results possible."

I think it will burp, just as the others did, on financial support. Who knows.

My thanks to Ron Carnell, who expressed his feelings about 911 in Cre8asiteForums with a poem he wrote called "The Shadow of Tragedy".

Here is the what's expected to be built where the twin towers once stood in NYC.

Haiku messages are much kinder than "Error 404". This was so fun Cre8asiteForums has invited Haiku writers to write error message haiku.

Samples:


The path you follow
has lost you along the way
nothing to see here


Microsoft 404
Still butterfly wings
on leaf of highest willow.
A butterfly has died.

Your file is not found
If you must file a complaint
Send it to Bill Gates

"404 not found"
You deserve a kinder note
Like this web haiku

Note to Kalena Jordan. "WHAT BABY???!!!"

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 9/12/2003 09:17:13 AM

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