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Reminiscent of the early days of Google's index, built by thousands of daisy-chained personal computers, the Grub Project works by using participants' idle computer power. If enough users volunteer their idle computer time to index the Web, hundreds of thousands of PCs could possibly match the indexing power...
If Wales can grow his volunteer base of previously idle computers as he has grown the editorial manpower of Wikipedia, perhaps a feasible search index is within grasp. Indexing the Internet, however, is the least of Jimbo's problems. Search engines rely on their algorithms, or complex formulas, to determine...
Problems aside, you have to admire Jimbo's chutzpah in challenging the state of the search industry. Jimmy, I only wish I had some idle computer time to donate, unfortunately I'm still busy searching for extraterrestrials.
Eluding or dispatching bad guys, fighting off six at a time in a stairwell, wrecking more autos than in a NASCAR blooper reel, Bourne speeds from London to Berlin to Tangier to New York City. Meanwhile his itinerary is monitored by CIA types - the pompous, desperate, George Tenet-y David...
Investigators, meanwhile, from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and from a private firm of forensic engineers hired by the state of Minnesota, have already arrived to begin trying to figure out what happened. NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker told reporters Thursday evening that the agency plans to use a special...