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I'm getting some feedback, which I appreciate, about the "friendliness" of
www.traders2traders.com <http://www.traders2traders.com> . There are some
visitors that don't find the site too useful as there aren't links that they
can browse, only a search function. Perhaps the following may help.
Basically, there are 2 paradigms to consider when storing any kind of data.
Does data have to conform to a structure, or does data form or drive the
structure. Clicking through links at a website, which is "structural,"
necessitates a considerable amount of site maintenance. However, letting
data drive its own structure is almost self-maintaining. To find data that
hasn't been pushed into a structure, one must search. This is the paradigm
that I used at www.traders2traders.com <http://www.traders2traders.com> .
The search engine that www.traders2traders.com
<http://www.traders2traders.com> "calls" is it's own server. (It's bound to
an IP and non-default port#). You can read more about it's functionality at
http://alkaline.vestris.com <http://alkaline.vestris.com> if you wish. It's
a server that can spider websites, local files, pretty much anything, and
collects data to a single or multi-part index. It's very configurable. It
allows users to search for words in files that aren't stored at
www.traders2traders.com <http://www.traders2traders.com> . Conceptually this
is very powerful, particularly if everyone's suggested urls totaled 500K
links or so that were all basically of the same genre.
However, there is a downside to the paradigm of data driving structure. If
you don't know what you're looking for, how can you search for it?
Personally I'd rather type words to find data than read lots of links and
hopefully navigate to what I'm seeking. I do appreciate that others like to
browse, which prods their searching process. But that's another matter,
which I'll sidestep.
If you just wish to browse the top level of the data at
www.traders2traders.com <http://www.traders2traders.com> , then enter a
wildcard on which to search. For example, enter * and you'll see the
starting urls and their descriptions, but you won't see the urls that are
linked to them. I could configure the search engine to display all urls and
descriptions it has spidered, but you'd have to read thousands of exerts to
read them all. Hardly a practical and efficient way to spend one's time:-)
I'm happy for anyone who cares to help maintain www.traders2traders.com
<http://www.traders2traders.com> . You may design and maintain a sub-web of
a few pages that contains descriptions and links to salient data. Please let
me know if you're interested. I know it'll take considerable time to keep it
current.
Hope this helps:-)
Colin west
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