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cactus Mail Starting 5/16/97

From: trebor@animeigo.com (Robert J. Woodhead (AnimEigo));
Sent at 5/17/97; 9:37:03 AM;
Re:NewBot

One would think that it will be the internet advertisers who will be even more upset - some yahoo crawls Yahoo! and triggers 10,000 banners!

Determining which gifs are ad banners and which are page content could be the spark that finally puts the AI people on the track to "hard AI".

From: InterMark_Consulting_Group@compuserve.com (Erik Sherman);
Sent at 5/16/97; 9:02:43 PM;
NewBot

Push is not a matter of a problem, but of a convenience. It's not a technology problem, per se, but distribution. Some people like having their newspaper delivered; others like to go to the corner store. I suspect that people who have the newspaper delivered also go to the bookstore to check out the magazine rack. I think push will be equivalent.

Most of the noise is a result of the computer industry's usual preoccupation: itself. It is a big point of discussion because people get to talk and think of themselves, not their customers. Notice that newspaper delivery services aren't focused on themselves. I know that from my youthful paper route. If you didn't give good service, you lost subscribers and made less money. The push companies that make it in the long run are the ones who remember that they do nothing but peddle an electronic bicycle from one IP address to the next.

From: UKaiser@aol.com;
Sent at 5/16/97; 8:49:16 PM;
1997 Motto...

Just realized that you totally forgot to share the motto for the year 1997! Last year it was 'Go with the flow' and 'Lets have fun'.

Maybe we just breed the 2:

'Let's have flow' and 'Go with the fun'

Just kidding...

From: carl@freedonia.com (Carl Steadman);
Sent at 5/16/97; 5:25:22 PM;
scripting.com in newbot

i added scripting.com's davenet to the newbot crawl.

btw, newbot indexes over 100 sites, not 50.

From: ed@wired.com (Ed Anuff);
Sent at 5/16/97; 4:33:03 PM;
Re: NewBot

Glad you like NewBot. Your original essay about "just in time search engines" was on target and one of the inspirations for the project.

The client-side software is necessary for the background searches and automatic notification of new results. We're going to have a universal HTML version soon as well as a Java-based client, so stay tuned.

Ed Anuff, Director, Product Management, HotWired, Inc.

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