Re: parsing

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: <http://www.raqia.com/~leonidl>
 > Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:25:21 -0500 (EST)
 >
 > Hi, Robert -- a question for you -- do you think that there is a use of
 > special hardware that can parse regular expressions "fast" in the search
 > engine world? I asked myself this question and from my experience the
 > answer would be "no" since for example what we did wasn't time critical --
 > we've been parsing pages in the search of the topics etc. and I do not
 > think that this was a bottleneck. But maybe there are other things such
 > special hardware could be used for in the search engine world????

Maybe.  I personally think it would've been cool if web pages could be
parsed/mined for data quickly.  Then, more complex structures could have
been extracted out of many more web pages.

This would have particular use in extracting info for use in the
SemanticWeb project.

 > I was recently looking for "gym quality mats" for my home gym and
 > after successful search on google and unsuccessful on altavista (is it going
 > down?)

I don't know, but I think CMGI wants to unload altavista.

 > I tried links 2 go. You can guess what I found. You can check.

links 2 go is useless -- spidering hasn't happened for over a year...

 > Anyway, who is it going?

No one I know :-).

 > How is your search?

Badly.  Not many out there yet...

 > anything exciting?

Not really.  I was gunna change this old laptop that I got for free to use
it as a glorified modem/router.  However, it turns out that it would cost
me more to buy the parts to get it to that point than it would be to just,
say, buy a SMC Barricade firewall router!  (I was all ready to install
Linux using floppies, too!)  Needless to say, I abandoned that project...

 > Leonid