[LINK] On with the Search Wars - A9.COM

[Adam Todd]

At 12:52 26/04/2004 +1000, jeff.evans at iird.vic.gov.au wrote:

>My point was that what's promoting itself as a "new search engine" was
>offering results from another (dominant) search engine...

True, but again, so easy to do!  Just a different way of doing it.

Lets face it, everyone announces their NEW product as NEW :)

>Your redirections (CGI scripts?) sound interesting.

It's not so much a redirection script.  The script itself is an interface 
to a series of SQL queries (some are dynamically created by the users 
interaction), a series if default display pages that can also be created by 
the users individually, a database interface, and an authentication system.

Sure, none is "new and ground breaking" but the simplicity and the fuzzy 
intelligence of the script is where the real magic is.

Simple configuration of a web server and results are returned based on the 
URL and the user's access, but in reality the results don't actually exist 
specifically for the user.