RE: (erielack) Archives Search (was CX-99 Wreck)

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

Well said, Will.  Let me add my appreciation: Thank you Henry!

SGL 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.elhts.org] On Behalf Of William Shultz
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: J. Henry Priebe Jr.
> Cc: EL Mailing List
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Archives Search (was CX-99 Wreck)
> 
> Maybe not Google, but then you don't get deliberately skewed 
> results just because someone paid for them either. And for 
> all their billions, the people behind Google haven't done 
> 1/10,000 of 1% of what you have done personally or through 
> Railfan.net to further railfan and rail historians interests 
> on the Internet. If there weren't pages to index, there would 
> be no Google results.
> 
> People don't thank you anywhere near enough Henry for all 
> your efforts. 
> Let me take the opportunity to do so since it has been a 
> while since I last did.
> 
> Thanks Henry!
> 
> Will Shultz
> 
> J. Henry Priebe Jr. wrote:
> > Google has literally billions of dollars to play with, we 
> don't even 
> > have a budget anywhere near 1/10,000 of 1% of that, sorry. We also 
> > don't have hundreds of paid employees dedicated to 
> optimizing a search 
> > engine. We don't even have a single volunteer (aside from 
> me) willing and able to work on it.
> > Our little search engine doesn't currently index two 
> character "words" 
> > like CX due to some practical limitations in how it works. It's the 
> > best we can do at the moment, I'm sorry if it isn't good enough.
> > 
> > Henry
> > 
> 
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