Paul Pavlik (pavlik@telusplanet.net)
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:10:39 -0600
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:10:39 -0600 From: Paul Pavlik <pavlik@telusplanet.net> Subject: Cold Snowy Holidays? SearchEngine from DEC
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Dear Edtechers:
Presenting the Glitterings from the GreatWhiteNorth:
It snowed over the Holidays so I spent the time in pseudoscientific
endeavors - surfin the weeb.
Here's the goodies: (more in following emails)
No. 1 (thanks to Windows Magazine) AltaVistaDiscovery
{www.altavista\discovery\}
free - a 9+
Turn all the items in your computer into an instant database...and
more!
When Digital Equip Corp was the intellectual king of the CyberHill they
developed a powerful search engine tech. This was used in the AltaVista
search site/portal. The 'Discovery' is a desktop implementation of this
search engine. It was a longish download for me but, wow, - now all my
documents are searchable, as are my networked volumes and the Web.
Indeed, I can make up any index I want.
With 1000's of emails and 200+ coming in a day, I need something like
this. One can have a desktop icon, task bar button, or a floating
palliate - mine hides on the top of my monitor to decent when I mouse to
the top.
I just type in a word or series of words that I am looking for and AVD
coufs up the doc with the first xxxwords of the text. It incudes a
reader and a bunch of other features.
Two of the main features in the WinvsMac wars is the Boolean Search
Engine and the Help files. AVDis closes the gap with this goodie.
Rating: no Boolean searches but otherwise something we all could use -
everyday. A real Jump-Start-Your-Brain Winner here.
Learning Curve - 5 minutes or less.
Way tago and Thanks to Digital and Compaq, et al.
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