13 May
2007
13 May
'07
8:16 p.m.
Al et al,
To be clear - the problem is that Google consumes bandwidth by
repeatedly downloading static documents, verses downloading dynamic
content whose index status might be new or dirty?
Lee Courtney
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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brad Parker
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Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Manuals being scanned
Al Kossow wrote:
Google is particularly bad about fetching documents over and over
again.
mmm... any evidence they are using OCR to index pdf's?
of all the places I'd *like* them to OCR, it's bitsavers.
in fact, mmmmm, I'd like to connect the two dots. bitsavers
+ google (and, and/all mit, standford, cmu, ... software archives)
something to start mentioning at various fund raising
cocktail parties :-)
-brad