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	<title>Comments on: How about a find engine?</title>
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		<title>By: Adam Fields</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-80436</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam Fields</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks! <img src='http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Doc Searls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-80269</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Searls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry Adam, my bad. Just fixed it. See above. :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry Adam, my bad. Just fixed it. See above. <img src='http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Adam Fields</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-80137</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam Fields</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So... I get no credit for pointing out that Clusty&#039;s results often match or exceed Google&#039;s (and Yahoo&#039;s)?  :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So&#8230; I get no credit for pointing out that Clusty&#8217;s results often match or exceed Google&#8217;s (and Yahoo&#8217;s)?  <img src='http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Barry Welford</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-78748</link>
		<dc:creator>Barry Welford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the mention, Doc.  I only wish Clusty was more easily accessible, e.g. via the Firefox Search function.  Way back I always used to find Vivisimo, the parent of Clusty, was one of the better meta-search engines and I&#039;m finding that its off-spring is performing well for me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the mention, Doc.  I only wish Clusty was more easily accessible, e.g. via the Firefox Search function.  Way back I always used to find Vivisimo, the parent of Clusty, was one of the better meta-search engines and I&#8217;m finding that its off-spring is performing well for me.</p>
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		<title>By: docduke</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-78726</link>
		<dc:creator>docduke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My experience is the reverse.  I can consistently find things on the Web using search engines, more easily than I can find text fragments on my hard drives.  There are indexing tools for the hard drive contents such as Beagle, but (1) they are resource hogs, and (2) they are intolerant of nonstandard file structures.

Search is a well-defined, almost mathamatically precise, easily parallelizable process.  A directory structure is usually an extension of someone&#039;s intuitive concept of categories and subcategories.  A directory structure that seems completely natural to one person may seem very illogical to another.  I first recognized the problem when I picked up a &quot;Yellow Pages&quot; in Belgium.  Its organizational structure bore no resemblance to the U.S. equivalent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My experience is the reverse.  I can consistently find things on the Web using search engines, more easily than I can find text fragments on my hard drives.  There are indexing tools for the hard drive contents such as Beagle, but (1) they are resource hogs, and (2) they are intolerant of nonstandard file structures.</p>
<p>Search is a well-defined, almost mathamatically precise, easily parallelizable process.  A directory structure is usually an extension of someone&#8217;s intuitive concept of categories and subcategories.  A directory structure that seems completely natural to one person may seem very illogical to another.  I first recognized the problem when I picked up a &#8220;Yellow Pages&#8221; in Belgium.  Its organizational structure bore no resemblance to the U.S. equivalent.</p>
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		<title>By: Doc Searls</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-78712</link>
		<dc:creator>Doc Searls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For those who care to follow, here are Wikipedia links for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;URI&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XDI&lt;/a&gt; and&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;XRI&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those who care to follow, here are Wikipedia links for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" rel="nofollow">URI</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDI" rel="nofollow">XDI</a> and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XRI" rel="nofollow">XRI</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom Morris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/08/25/how-about-a-find-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-78711</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>XRI? Yuck. We already have a standard for distinguishing resources called URI. And it seems to work just fine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>XRI? Yuck. We already have a standard for distinguishing resources called URI. And it seems to work just fine.</p>
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