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[FYI] "It's a big deal," said Andreessen, who met with Gnutella developers last week
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Napster-like technology takes Web search to new level
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 31, 2000, 4:00 a.m. PT
First it was the record companies' nightmare. Now Yahoo and AltaVista
might be next.
The loose group of open-source programmers responsible for the
controversial Gnutella file-swapping software have turned their
technology into what they say is a powerful new Web search tool.
By adapting the same technology now used to swap MP3 music files
between hundreds of thousands of computer users, they say they've
created a search engine that can be more up-to-date and potentially
more targeted than search sites such as Yahoo or Lycos.
They've posted a rudimentary trial version--what they call a "proof
of technology"--at InfraSearch. The bare-bones site is short on
design and functionality at this point but provides a look at a
search tool that goes beyond the capabilities of most existing Web
search engines.
[...]
"It's a big deal," said Andreessen, who met with Gnutella developers
last week and quickly became an admirer. "It will be a way for
businesses to expose what they want people to find more easily."
It also is one of the first moves by what has been hugely
controversial file-swapping software into the realm of unquestionably
legitimate Web business. That's likely to take some of the legal
shadows off the technology and could spur a new phase in development.
[...]
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