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With a bit more exploration, the mountainzone/"NOVA" climbers may find the camera that will tell us whether Mallory and Irvine actually made it to the top. The documentary of the search will make great TV, and the Web site will probably be overloaded with requests for t-shirts and Everest fleeces. I just hope that Mallory's three famous words are not lost in the hype. We should all remember the importance of taking some challenges "because they're there" and not just in the hope of imagined glory in the outcome...
When a student enters graduate school the search for an adviser begins. Once the student finds an adviser, the adviser helps the student to define a research project, apply for grants and fellowships and write papers. Finally, an adviser helps the student to find...
...truth is out there -- the real question is, where the hell is it in all this crap? Search has always been an integral part of how people use the Web, since its earliest days, and the Web's first big brands -- Yahoo, Excite, Lycos -- were all search engines. But can they still cut the mustard? A new generation of search services is springing up, with names like Google and FAST, armed with next-generation technology, and they say they have the power to supplant their elders and finally make sense...
...funny thing about the Web as a medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which...