[freenet-chat] Harpoon - your new Freenet search engine

Hi fellow Freenetters, It gives me pleasure to announce 'Harpoon', a new Freenet search engine residing on the WWW. Harpoon is a true crawler, which indexes all the currently viewable freesites. So you can search on words which occur within current freesite pages. It is my intention to keep an

[freenet-chat] Harpoon Search - user notes

Notes for Harpoon Search 1. Harpoon Search is a fully spidered Freenet search engine. This means that you can search for text or html pages containing certain words in their text, as opposed to just searching on URIs or titles. 2. Temporary URL for Harpoon is http://harpoonsearch.cjb.net 3. Sea

Re: [freenet-chat] Harpoon - your new Freenet search engine

David McNab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The temporary web address for Harpoon is: > http://harpoonsearch.cjb.net Very nice! 1) It needs a better so that it shows up as Harpoon in my bookmarks, without my having to edit the bookmarks manually. 2) Your link to Freenet (from the main page) i

Re: [freenet-chat] Harpoon Search - user notes

Hi David, so you're running a Freenet spider too. Guess that means war ;-) Or just competition. Or mutual learning. Or collaboration. So... what I would like to know: Where do you want to take this project? Was this just a quick shot at hacking htdig to adapt it to Freenet? Or is it the beginni

Re: [freenet-chat] Finding a key on your node

This won't work anymore. I believe that sometime in the 0.3 series, a probablistic decrement on the htl was added (meaning there is a certain chance that the htl won't be reduced and thus the message will be passed on to another node). I don't remeber when this was added (or even if it was added

Re: [freenet-chat] Harpoon Search - user notes

Thanks by the way to Jantho on the IRC who plucked the name Harpoon from a random dictionary search. Eerie how appropriate that word is :) > so you're running a Freenet spider too. Guess that means war ;-) > Or just competition. Or mutual learning. Or collaboration. In my state of exhaustion yes

Re: [freenet-chat] Harpoon Search - user notes

Hi David, > Freenet would be best served IMO by a handful of major engines, each based > on different methods of spidering, indexing etc. Some spider-based, some > based on keywords, some hand-edited, some automatic etc etc. What one engine > misses, another will find. We all serve the punters be