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1 total messages Started by Phred Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:26
TopGist for MSIE
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Author: Phred
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:26
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G'day mates,

I have two questions relating to this topic, but first some 
background:

The other day one of the Oz PC mags was singing the praises of a 
program called TopGist <http://www.topgist.com> which is allegedly a 
"research tool" to help make sense of those Google etc. searches which 
find tens of thousands of results in response to your request.

The program apparently takes the results of a search and "indexes" 
them into folders and subfolders of similar material -- which would 
certainly help one scan for potentially useful pages if the algorithm 
doing the indexing is reliable!

As in many such offerings, TopGist is "free for personal use".

So now for my questions:

1. Anyone here had any experience with TopGist that they would be 
willing to share with the rest of us, please?

2. A technical point -- When I attempted to download the thing (it's 
about 4MB) using MSIE 6, the download stalled at "99% complete".  Is 
there a technical reason (i.e. some HTML or equivalent code in the 
source page) that may cause this behaviour?  I'm just wondering 
because, when I first attempted it, I renamed the download to 
reflect the version, rather than simply accepting the generic default 
file name offered by the site.  When I tried again, I went with the 
default and it all worked okay.  So what was the catch I wonder? 
(Assuming it wasn't just a communications glitch -- and they're *very* 
rare in my experience.  In fact, I can't recall having one in the past 
three years on this service, unless this was it! :)

Cheers, Phred.

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