Friday, May 16, 1997

Is Carl Steadman going to heaven or hell?

MacWEEK: Steve Jobs at WWDC and major changes in the Mac OS.

Ed Anuff responds in "Mail Starting 5/16/97".

DaveNet piece: "NewBot".

PC WEEK: First look at Netscape's Netcaster.

Testing ODB Server: an Internet-based glossary server.

Bug fix in the odbServer suite.

Wired has a new search engine, Newbot, which indexes high frequency sites. Unfortunately it only works with Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows. Honestly, I think the benefit of pushing search queries to your desktop isn't worth the trouble. Just having a search engine that indexes sites every 15 minutes is enough of a payoff, who needs the gee-whiz aspects of the ActiveX stuff?

I wrote about "just in time" search engines in "Floating Ideas", 9/7/96.

SJ Mercury: Exponential shuts down.