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Re: Statements against new.net?
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:13:45 +0800
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001, Scott Francis wrote:
If we remove DNS or a similar unique naming convention, the only way people have to navigate is by hoping that their search terms are specific enough to have the site they really want to reach appear somewhere in the top 100 results (i.e. "apple computer corporation" should hopefully return www.apple.com but may also return fansites, technical reviews, magazine sites, etc.).
Removing DNS is kinda the wrong thing. Do *you* want to run NIS? :) In any case, what I've seen here screams out "Distributed directory service!" Ie, if I pulled up a browser and typed in "apple" then it'd first match an all the categories an "Apple" was found in, and then let the user navigate that way. .. which, people could argue is already being done through people like Yahoo!, but I'd think something a little less centralised and a little more end-user controlled would be more useful. In any case, the first question which pops into my head is "How do you then stop a porn site entering in wrong information to get the $$$?" (.. and my answer to that is the porn store shouldn't be allowed to list because of mis-representation, but hey, I'm just a youngin..) Adrian -- Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file <adrian () creative net au> from half way around the world should be viewed as an accident and not a right." -- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
Current thread:
- RE: Statements against new.net?, (continued)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mathew Butler (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mathew Butler (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Roeland Meyer (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Stephen Stuart (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Hank Nussbacher (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Stephen Stuart (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Patrick Greenwell (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Adrian Chadd (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Eric A. Hall (Mar 16)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Simon Higgs (Mar 17)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Mark Kosters (Mar 28)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Ben Browning (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 15)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Adrian Chadd (Mar 15)
- DNS Control mike harrison (Mar 15)
- Re: DNS Control Jim Dixon (Mar 15)