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> From:         Linda Richards[SMTP:scribe@MINDLINK.BC.CA]
> Sent:         Sunday, October 25, 1998 2:47 PM
>
>
> Her comment wasn't about your site, it was about GeoCities sites in
> general compared to personal pages located on university servers. The
> idea of ruling out sites that contain a tilde is a far more ridiculous
> thought than ruling out the crap that many (not yours) GeoCities sites
> contain.
>
> So here's a solution: let's not rule out either because the reality is
> that the gold anyone is looking for when searching can possibly be found
> on any flavor of site at all.
>
> Boil it down further: there's no easy way to do this. No magic search
> criteria. There are so many variables and all of them determined by the
> first variable: the thing you're looking for. Eliminating any source
> because of the type of server it's on is a bad idea.
>
>
Amen. There is no "silver bullet" for eliminating sites. There are, however,
alternatives to using search engines as your first source. There are the
listings like Yahoo that do have humans checking them out. And services like
The Mining Company (http://www.miningco.com/) where subject matter experts
provide annotated links. [disclaimer, i write for TMC].


Kathy


> Kathy E. Gill
>
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