WAS: Nice PC-museum..

On Wed, 16 May 2007 04:53:24 +0200, from at fu3.org wrote: "Based on", WoW that is a wide subject .... This project started out as a utility lookup.lsp I wrote some time back as a personal tool, it took a search string and feed it to a handful of search engines, and compiled the returns into a single tiny page I could look at on my cell phone. I used it to lookup the current "usage" of domain and product names as well as a prefetch search tool. The project took a turn in march when I decided to modify it to attempt to figure out the overall size of the known or at least indexed world of the internet. It been slowly evolving over time unideal early april when using lookup7 I discovered that the the 5 search engines I chose to track and use as my reference sources could be spell out YGAMS on my cell phone screen and YGAMS.COM had not only not been registered. The best part was that it had a "gamy" (the proposed name at the time) value of 0. Other than a few misspellings of YGAMES YGAMS had an internet present of Zip, nada, Zero... Too cool to pass up, so lookup.lsp got a face lift and YGAMS.COM was born. A conversation with a math guy, confirmed my math was as good, and I began to calculate and log the daily average size of the indexed world. Using this overall average I built a weighting system, which I apply to the results of each search, to produce the current YGAMS number. At that point YGAMS was text only and ran mostly on my cell phone. Upon returning from my annual trip into tax hell, I addressed the problems of charting YGAMS related info to my cell phone. I decided to try a pure HTML approach based on tables, I liked the idea that it did not require the generation or display of any image or file other than the pure HTML being generated and returned directly from the evaluation of a control lists. http://ygams.com/ygams.lsp?info was the first chart I started with. Followed in a few days by http://ygams.com/ygams.lsp?scores when I figured out how to stack backgrounds in a table cell. Early May, I set up a caching system and began generating what I will call the game charts I am playing with now. Which raises your second question ... I can say the math and logic is all mine. Every YGAMS goes through the same analysis process and is scaled based the same normalization and based on what I like to think of as the normalized size of the internet today. The resulting number is not as important as the relationship of theindex indicators used as daily references to each other. I was supprised just how much Yahoo Google Ask, MSN, and Search.com search results changed from day to day as the spiders drop and reindex several billion of pages a day between them. It is still a work in progress ... Bob Bradlee