RE: OT:Search Engines-Amazon

From: Steve Orr <sorr_at_arzoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:07:05 -0700
Message-Id: <10591.114734@fatcity.com>

Hi Rachel,

So how does AltaVista and Verity work? ...That is, does it search against CLOB text in our wonderful Oracle databases or does it require files?

TIA,
Steve Orr

-----Original Message-----
From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Rachel Carmichael
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 6:36 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: OT:Search Engines-Amazon

Amazon uses Altavista (according to Altavista). CDNow uses Verity (according to people I have spoken with at CDNow).

if you go to www.altavista.com and look for their search engine, they list the customers who use it. www.verity.com does the same.

We have been looking at search engines recently. There are good and bad points to both altavista and verity, but they seem to be the top ones out there.

Rachel

>From: "Koivu, Lisa" <lkoivu_at_qode.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: OT:Search Engines-Amazon
>Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 04:49:08 -0800
>
>Hello all, this may be a stab in the dark, and forgive me for being off
>topic -
>
>By chance does anyone know what search engine Amazon is using? Or remember
>any articles published about what technologies they use? Their search
>times
>are amazing. Something tells me they are not using Intermedia.
>
>Thanks
>
>Lisa Rutland Koivu
>Oracle Database Administrator
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