This is because AltaVista has probed the site with a cralwer and has
generated a keyword list of the entire site. When you select a URL from
AltaVista you are getta a URL that refrence a CGI script. The newformat on
the faster server will allow better searching and performance even for
AltaVista.

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Breheny <shb7@CORNELL.EDU>
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: PICLIST archives?


>At 07:43 PM 4/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Currently there is no search on the piclist archives. The data format for
>>most of the archive prohibits this. I am working on moving the Archive to
a
>>faster server in a format more suited to such a search.
>>
>>If your interested in looking at what there is the URL is:
>>http://www.iversoft.com/piclist/
>>
>>Alan Nickerson
>
>Alan,
>
>Thanks very much for the archive! BTW, I am a bit curious about what you
>said regarding the search. Often, when I search something about pics on
>AltaVista, I get links to messages within the archive as results. I was
>just wondering how come AltaVista was able to search it if you say that the
>data format prohibits this.
>
>Sean
>
>
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