[LINK] deep web

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Tue Feb 24 09:28:59 AEDT 2009


On 24/02/2009, at 8:59 AM, Michael Still wrote:

> Eric Scheid wrote:
>> On 24/2/09 8:23 AM, "Stilgherrian" <stil at stilgherrian.com> wrote:
>>
>>> (There's also another question. If you put information on the public
>>> web, why *wouldn't* you want it indexed so people can find it?  
>>> Either
>>> you want it public or you don't. Don't you?)
>>
>> can a robot tell the difference between a finite database of  
>> information and
>> an infinitely large dynamically generated information space?
>
> Imagine you're a first year computer science student... Surely you can
> think of a way of avoiding infinite loops?

Who's to say that it's an infinite loop? (though, technically, it's  
unlikely to be infinite otherwise)

It's the known unknowns that worry me most.

iT



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