Mike -
Most search engines are so anemic that they are laughable. They
can't even look for a phrase. The user either finds nothing or is
overwhelmed by vast quantities of information. As for searching for
information one html page at a time, you can't be serious. Computerized
indexes that are just as good as book indexes do exist. Also a good index
gives one the ability to browse organized subject headings within a topic
QUICKLY and THOROUGHLY. I have yet to see the search engine that will do
that one. Such indexes are usually built by people who know the subject
matter and who sometimes put in extra stuff to take care of changed
terminology or in the case of software, changed usage and the readers will
often be led to things they didn't know about but want to know about. Fat
chance of that happening with the average search engine.
BTW, I have lots of time to go out and locate NoteTab, whatever that
is, learn how to load it with the RBase documentation, load it with the
RBase documentation, then learn how to find things in it. Oh yes, and each
time the RBase documentation changes I suppose that the information in
NoteTab must be deleted and reloaded, or something like that, to get the
updates in. I already know how to use an index.
With tongue firmly in cheek,
Bernie
P.S. Books are not gone.
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At 10:34 AM 5/22/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>True, books are nice but they are gone. You can use powerful search tools to
>find instances of a word or phrase. You can search in a HTML document
>with almost anything. If you want a real comprehensive search then load all
>the HTML documents in a program such as NoteTab Pro and do a search on
>all documents.
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