Brain-dead search engine

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>>>>> "John" == John Hills <a1b01591@ultranet.ca> writes:

    John> I've wasted half an hour trying to search the archive for
    John> files related to mgetty under NeXT OS. What a braindead
    John> search engine!

    John> It barfs if I use NeXT as a search term and the output of
    John> any search doesn't enable me to find the archive it points
    John> to.

The webglimpse search engine is broken.  It is being worked on, but as 
a spare time project.

    John> The site doesn't seem to allow robots, so I can't use
    John> WebSnake to search myself.

The site is indexed by Alta Vista and a lot of other search engines.
You might try using one of them.

    John> Bloody hopeless.

    John> Any suggestions, short of manually checking each month?

Try alta vista.  Sorry for the broken search engine.  We are working
on it when we have time, but this is all for free, so we don't have as 
much time as if we were getting paid to do it.  :-)

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