Re: Searchable Indexes: LISTEN NOW!

Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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Subject: Re: Searchable Indexes: LISTEN NOW! 
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 01 Jul 93 11:38:34 +0200.
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Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1993 15:31:07 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Status: RO
> In Veronica, it's possible to search for folders only. This narrows
> searches considerably. Again, not sure how well this maps to the Web,
> but it is a very useful feature. It'd also be nice to have an
> automatically maintained list of all known home pages.

Maybe some hints to HMTL+ will make it easier, something like:
    <DOCTYPE="homepage">
    <DOCTYPE="index">
I don't fully understand the problem but my point is that we might be
able to do a better job by making life easier for the indexing software.

This certainly is a good area to do some research.

--sanders