On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 01:19:03PM -0800, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
What Vadim is trying to explain to you is that this does not scale(or at least not with the current system.) When I type in the world "apple" do I want information on the fruit, the computer company, or the record company(or something else that contains/is related to the string "apple"?)
Add to this the complexity of multilingualism, where a string of characters can have a reasonably deterministic meaning or set of meanings in one language, and a completely different set of meanings in another.
Search engines are horribly inaccurate for trying to reach any single particular page, unless it's so bizarre that you only get a dozen search results. I would definitely not advocate search engines to replace the current DNS system, unless a whole new generation of search engines was created that could effectively deduce exactly where the user _really_ wanted to go, accurately, every time (which is what DNS currently does).
So tell me when I type in the word "apple" where exactly do I want to go?
Ok this is getting downright rediculous. There is a reason we HAVE search engines, to find the links between content names and destination names. If I want to order an apple I don't goto www.apple.com. These levels of naming exist for a reason. If you want to find content about apples you goto Google and search for apples, if you want to goto Apple Computer you type www.apple.com, and if you want to goto a specific server you type 17.254.0.91. If you cannot figure out what to type or where to type it, this is not my problem. If this thread stops right now I will pay everyone who participated in it up to this point $1000 US each. Thank you. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)