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anti-search

Wednesday, December 5th, 2001 at 1:09 PM Category: Meryl's Notes Blog No comments

The Anti-Thesaurus is a proposal for improving Internet search and reduce unnecessary bandwidth use. How many times have you looked at your Web site reports to find visitors arrived there from a search engine? Good. From that list, how many of them were fruitless searches? In other words, the visitor had no chance of finding what he was looking for based on the keywords provided. I get it all the time especially Meryl Stre*p nud*. No, Stre*p and nud* are not cuss words, I don’t want to give search engines more power to send people this way because they’ll find nothing on her here except the fact that we have the same first name. I don’t remember ever typing her name in my blog, but may I have. Searches like this waste the visitor’s time because he will find nothing and wastes my server’s bandwidth unless, of course, he thinks my site is so cool and worth visiting again I expect to see the Internet search technology to continually make advances It wouldn’t surprise me to see features allowing us to enter "non" keywords, which tell the search engine not to come to this Web site if a visitor enters such "non" keywords.

castle wolfenstein

Oh man, that’s a flash from the past! Way back to when I owned an Apple ][+ and Castle Wolfenstein (pre-3D). When it came out in 3-D, I quickly learned that my ability to get motion sickness extended to 3-D games. I don’t remember if I ever finished the game or not, but I recall learning a few German words. Enjoy the game again or give it as a gift to the gamer. It’s available for Windows with the Mac OSX in beta.

next generation gui

Before Windows, I never thought about what the future of GUI would hold. Now, many developers are working to define the next generation of computer interfaces. be closest at hand. Read the article at Technology Review, discuss it at Slashdot, or go to Nooface where they exchange ideas about the next-generation user interfaces.

All three story leads from Netsurfer’s Digest. One more link – Dreaming of writing a virus to pi** off the rest of us? Go check out the book from O’Really. Do you *really* think I would encourage such an activity?