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Apparently what I should have said (instead of "this searched the
voicerecognition.com web site....") was this searched the AltaVista index of
voicerecognition.com. AltaVista, just like Yahoo! and others, is an index of
many web pages which have been submitted by users. AltaVista also has its own
technology that crawls the web for links. It is not an active search engine
whereby it goes out and searches a particular host location upon request, but one
that relies on its own database for information. Should AltaVista fail to list
every post from the Voice-Users Archive would not be a surprise to me.
Frankly, had AltaVista worked in the way in which I may have applied, I'd like to
get my hands on one of their machines. Between the bandwidth and CPU resources
required for such a task, I'd probably be able to keep up with the increased
activity here on the voice-users mailing list and run NaturallySpeaking 8.0 with
PsychicAbility Technology without much problem.
Pardon the confusion. And remember, your mileage may vary.
George Tracy wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 13:03:17 -0400, K Hackman <sandflea@@emi.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Yes, there are two ways you can search the archive for a specific topic.
> <snip>
> >Method #2: With the AltaVista search engine (I'm not sure about others) you
> >can search a specific computer. You might want to read the following URL
> >(http://www.altavista.digital.com/av/content/help.htm#simple) for more
> >details about this option. Here's one example how this can be
> >accomplished. From the following URL (http://www.altavista.digital.com/), I
> >typed the following text into the search box "host:voicerecognition.com
> >text:naturallyspeaking." This searched the "voicerecognition.com" web site
> >for the word "naturallyspeaking" and returned 842 matches. This will search
> >the ENTIRE voicerecognition.com web site, which means it will return a lot
> >of useless pages (for your search needs) from the advertising, forums,
> >ordering, etc. pages on the 21st Century Eloquence site. It will, however,
> >search the 1998, 1997, and 1996 archives all at once. Since you're likely
> >to include a more refined search than the example I've provided, you'll
> >probably get better results (and fewer)!
>
> Thanks for the real world example of how those parameters work.
>
> I wish what you are saying is indeed how the results are returned.
> They aren't though. So far this year I have posted 104 messages to
> voice-users. Using the above method and using my left hand side
> address of gttracy as a text parameter AltaVista only reports a total
> of 45 posts total for the voicerecognition.com domain for all
> documents. None of my 78 postings during 1997 are returned.
>
> Dr. Fishiman if you're listening do you know if AltaVista was asked to
> stop scanning the archives after the noise some of us users made
> concerning the practice?
>
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