MetaFilter posts tagged with searchengines and technology

Hackers == Terrorists?

mrgrimm — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:00:42 -0800

Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, others under attack? Despite all the big IPO news about Google, the bigger news today is that it doesn't work. Slap on an age-discrimination suit while we're at it, and potential trouble for the IPO. Have Larry and Sergei finally pissed off the wrong people?

I thought Grub was a bootloader?

Eloquence — Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:32:05 -0800

Is Grub out of control? Barely more than a week old, the distributed search engine is already causing headaches. It does not properly follow the Robot Exclusion Standard and thus spiders sites against their owners' wishes. Because it is a distributed client run by thousands of volunteers (and therefore connects from many different IP addresses), it is non-trivial to block. The Wikipedia project, for example, is experiencing slowdowns because of it. Let's hope they can solve these problems, as the idea seems to be quite cool.

jakd — Sun, 04 Nov 2001 14:19:51 -0800

Dave's Quick Search Deskbar: A cool little utility to make searches on the Windows desktop easy and (POW!) fast!

wendell — Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:14:31 -0800

YAHOOGLE!!
Your average weblogger's favorite search engine makes the big time (and they just hit a billion pages indexed, too). Will success spoil the Googs?