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Anyone check this site out yet. My Dad sent me this and it looks pretty cool.
The TCLUG page came right up when I typed in TCLUG. Modern Technology... WOW.

Clay

Tom Fandre wrote:
>
> 
> We've all experienced the problem:
> 
> The automated search engines (like Alta Vista) return 54,321 items "in
> no particular order" (many of which are porn sites). But the
> human-indexed search services (like Yahoo) often can't find what you
> want because they're only able to index a small fraction of the entire
> web (since they're human.) So you're left with the uneasy (but probably
> ccurate) sense that what you want is out there somewhere ... but you're
> no closer to finding it.
> 
> The truly amazing new solution:
> 
> A couple of extremely bright guys at Stanford University solved the Web
> Search Engine Problem once and for all, creating the last search system
> you will ever need:  http://google.com/
> 
> What's their secret?  They use Linux-based web robots to explore and
> index the entire Web. But then they determine the QUALITY of each
> resulting link based upon the QUALITY of the OTHER sites that link INTO
> that site.  So, THE ONLY WAY a site can be highly rated, under Google,
> is if other highly rated sites have links pointing into it!  It's
> brilliant.
> 
> This simple concept works SO WELL that every single person I've told
> about Google has switched permanently to using Google as their Web
> search engine of choice.  It really is that good!
> 
> And of course it's free! ... so give it a shot for yourself!:
> 
>            <a href= "http://google.com" >Google</a>
> 
> Steve Gibson.

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