Author: Per Steneskog
Date: 13:04:24 10/21/00
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I have nothing to contribute with to this thread than that I entirely agree. I imagine that in the early days of CCC, someone explained why they weren't able to set up a search engine. I don't remember the answer, but I would probably find it if it was searchable :) // Epor@ICC On October 19, 2000 at 22:06:05, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >Search by author, keywords (at least in title, better title and text as >selected), by date, boolean operators, wildcards, move up-thread, down-thread, >etc. Hierarchical directory with hyperlinks to messages answering commonly asked >questions. > >There are lots of hidden gems in the posts, lots of good advice, and people who >know can't keep repeating the same answers every time someone new decides to >start writing a chess program. It is a pitty that almost all of of the >accumulated wisdom and practical resources here are burried to never see the >light again in the zipped collections among thousands of nameless files. > >Adding a usable search facility would not only help people looking for good info >on chess prorgamming, but would have a positive feedback into the quality of >posts, since people posting would get a clear sense they're writing something >which will likely be read years from now, instead of feeling they're throwing >their thoughts and time down the river to vanish into a memory hole. People >write and think differently depending on perceived permanence of their >production. We would have fewer online-chat-quality posts and silly quarrels if >the posters could get some tangible sense of permanence. As it stands, the sense >one gets is of casual exchange one might see on a busy city square while passing >someone by.
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