Re: searchable index of the web
marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 17:16:14 -0500
From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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To: sanders@bsdi.com
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: searchable index of the web
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Tony Sanders writes:
> I was shocked to see how few home pages I've visted. I really need to
> get out more often :-) Then I noticed that they all have the :port
> which mans it's not the same. Marc, when doing annotations and
> checking the "visited" list maybe you should ignore :80 on http:
> servers?
Yup. And 70 for Gopher servers. And WAIS gateways should be
equivalenced. And trailing periods in machine names should be
ignored. And trailing slashes in directory names. And...
Big problem; hopefully solved by URN's; planning on patching the hell
out of libwww2 for Mosaic 2.0 to try to do as much as possible though.
>
> We need to do something anyway. With annotations you can get really
> lost in the Web.
>
> --sanders
Cheers,
Marc