Re: ATM Search Engine

[Michael Lindner <mikel@att.net>]

Nick Cain wrote:
> 
> If non-atm pages get turned up by the search engine, do you want to know
> about it? Or is it inevitable that a few would slip through? (I found
> http://www.hre.com/shoptalk/st2200.html which is a page on drag racing).

Thanks, but don't bother pointing them out for now. The algorithm is
crude, and lots of pages are in there that technically don't belong. The
catch is that if an ATM has a page that deals with several hobbies, all
the links get indexed. Also, there are some businesses that sell things
that ATMs would be interested in, and I index their whole site, not just
the page on roller bearings or teflon.

As time goes on, I hope to reduce the amount of clutter and add more ATM
sites. So far, there are about 33,000 web sites indexed by the engine,
with more being added daily. I believe most of them are legitimate ATM
sites, but with 33,000 I obviously can't go through them all by hand.
Once I figure out how to get the software to better filter only the
things I want, I'll be very interested in hearing about sites that slip
through, but for now there are so many...

--
Mike Lindner