From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jul 13 3:38:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fling.sanbi.ac.za (fling.sanbi.ac.za [196.38.142.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A2137B407 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johann@egenetics.com) Received: from johann by fling.sanbi.ac.za with local (Exim 3.13 #4) id 15L0Jh-000J7v-00; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:37:01 +0200 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:37:01 +0200 From: Johann Visagie To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Alfred Perlstein , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getting rid of sysinstall Message-ID: <20010713123701.E70314@fling.sanbi.ac.za> References: <20010712143205.D4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712214758.S63228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010712151259.E4589@sneakerz.org> <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010712223124.U63228@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:31:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan on 2001-07-12 (Thu) at 22:31:24 +0200: > > Alfred Perlstein said on Jul 12, 2001 at 15:12:59: > > > > It was fun, but we missed. > > Ah. Too bad.. > > Google *is* fast, and pretty reliable, and if they have lots of > linux-specific hacks maybe it's not a good idea for them to change. > But if they had been FreeBSD to begin with, I wonder whether > they'd need 6000 machines... How widely is it known that FAST's alltheweb.com search engine runs on FreeBSD? (Is this even still the case? After their recent site redesign I can't find their FAQ file in which this fact used to be mentioned.) Alltheweb used to be my default search engine, but I have to admit that these days even I use Google - their query results are simply structured better. OTOH, alltheweb still has a better (IMO) advanced search interface, and their image search engine returns results that are far more accurate for my money than the recently much-hyped (by /. and others) images.google.com. (Hmm, speaking of alltheweb's redesign, it seems they're catching up with some of the features that made me switch to Google. Intriguing...) -- V To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message