__/ [Darren Tipton] on Sunday 16 October 2005 11:40 \__
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:52:09 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on the topic of "Re: Open Source and
> Search":
>
>>SETI@home is the first thing that arose in my head. Sounded dubious -
>>Search Engine at Home and Peer to Peer Search Engine...
>
> This is basically what http://majestic12.co.uk does. Uses people's spare
> PC time to index the web.
It also uses up their power, costing them money via electricity bills as the
machine could otherwise go into stand-by, hibernation or shut off the
screen and halt hard-drive rotation. It's like an 'SE tax'.
Darren, your contact form is broken. I tried to send you a message this
morning so here is my opportunity to pull it out from my archives and make
it heard:
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Nice work on the SERP comparison tool. I'll blog about it later today.
Good luck,
Roy
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Roy
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