Re: Botspot / multi-search tools (Re: Locating Online Jobs)

[Bill Bledsoe <bledsoe -at- CMS-STL -dot- COM>]

Jim, All

I'll tell you what... I may never need another metasearch or search engine ever
again after yesterday.

If you haven't gotten the first public beta of NS Communicator 4.5, you oughta!
SmartBrowse is AWESOME!!!  And... it really makes you think about how you have
your site domain registered too...

For those of you who don't know... Netscape has come up with a way that you can
forget about entering URL's into the location bar, and just enter the name of the
place you want to go... like say Framemaker....  keyword.netscape.com does the
rest! If the site is in the database, boom, you're off to framemaker.com.  If it
is not in the database as framemaker.com, Boom! you get a list of search results
on Framemaker from Netcenter NetSearch
(powered by Excite).  (by the way... framemaker IS in there... as
well as Dreamweaver, Microsoft, Sun, Ford... that's all I could think of
trying off the bat.)

We showed this technology to our most novice users, and our most advanced users,
and all clammored greatly. Frankly, I've never seenuser's eyes get so wide over
software! If Netscape pulls this off completely (has a coverage rate on par with
the rest of the search engine/portals), this will change the
user experience of the Web completely in my humble and worthless opinion.  And
then... how about applying this technolgy to Online Doc???  whew boy!

The times are changin' fast... isn't it fun!

that's my $.02 worth... as always YMMV.
-bb

JIMCHEVAL -at- AOL -dot- COM wrote:

> In a message dated 98-07-16 18:18:03 EDT, jkram -at- GTE -dot- NET writes:
>
> Oh su-u-u-ure.......

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