Re: Alta Vista

J. Michael New (MICHAEL.NEW@NRC.CA)
Tue, 12 Mar 1996 10:20:57 -0500

Darren Osadchuk reveals:
>
> >I just tried to put my last name into AltaVista. It turns out that I
> >come from a very small family, and that there are not many of us.
> >However, AltaVista found 32 web pages with my name. From my page, to
> >other pages I have contributed, to Info-Mac archives.
> >
> >I think this engine indexes every significant word on the pages that it
> >visits.
> >
> >Pretty neat.
>
> This sounded like a pretty neat idea, so I decided to give it a shot (using
> my own name, of course).

:(

When I put in my last name, it counts 13 996 832 occurences. I went through
them
one by one and found that it took 32 years to look at them each for thirty
seconds (looking 70 hours per week). :-)

But seriously, if I look up my entire name, I get all these articles on this
guy who has MY NAME who refused to wear a UN uniform and got court-marshalled
(he was US army). I think he ended up getting a dishonorable discharge.

What kind of dumb-ass last name is New, anyways?

Mike
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Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute (613)991-4371
National Research Council of Canada home: (613)230-7783
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