Am 2005-04-11 20:13:21, schrieb Almut Behrens: > Yeah (*nostalgic sigh*), there was a time when it was a matter of > seconds to locate the spot on this planet that had the file you were > looking for. You just had to know the name of it -- roughly, as > regexes were supported (in contrast to a general google search...). > I loved it. Kind of a "find / -regex pattern | ls -l", only > world-wide, and much faster... This was what I liked... > In particular, in addition to Archie, there was Fast FTP Search, which > was a real pleasure to use. IIRC, it had originally been developed > and run by a company in Norway (now http://fastsearch.com/). > Sadly though, after this service had been taken over by Lycos, it > started to - slowly but surely - fall apart... I know, <fastsearch.com> and <ftpsearch.lycos.com> are the same... And on the website it was written, that the searchengine was only a educativ product... > Not that whining would bring it back to life... but, just out of plain > curiosity, has anyone got details / stories as to why support had been > dropped. Or, more generally, why Google still doesn't provide any such > specialised FTP search facility? They should have the prerequisites... > Any patent (or other) issues? Or has anonymous FTP fallen into > oblivion altogether in the meantime, so there isn't anyone who would > care about it any longer? FTP-Search is not for public interest... Only for Geeks, Freaks, Developers... > Actually, via google I just found http://www.filesearching.com/advanced/ > which looks remotely like the original Fast FTP Search -- but I have > no idea how up-to-date their database is... It does seem to work, in > principle, but somehow, it doesn't quite look like _the_ FTP counterpart > to Google ;) > Does anyone happen to know of any viable, well-maintained alternatives? Let us create one ? > Almut > (apologies for the off-topicness) > > > P.S. Michelle, are you planning to set up some kind of replacement for > ftpsearch.lycos.com? I mean, that'd be great. Definitely! :) But, > it sounds like a rather big project to me... At least, personally, I'd > feel a bit overwhelmed by the level of expertise and time required... Oh, i will start small, bur do not know, how get I ftp-sources... Should I scan the Internet for port 21 ? Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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