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
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