June 2003 Archives
June 18, 2003
Microsoft using MSNBOT to build its own search engine
Looks like the competition will shortly be hotting up in the search engine world - Microsoft have started sending their own MSNbot out scouring the web to build a new index for MSN search "This crawl is a prototype work. MSNbot is not currently indexing for the MSN Search Engine, so your site may or may not show up in MSN Search results today. Although we have not set a date, it is our intention to eventually integrate the...
June 16, 2003
The Beatles at Walthamstow Granada
One of the great things about the web is its ability to capture these sort of memories for as long as standards and servers hold up to the task: "I was 14 years old, and with several friends from school we queued all night outside the Walthamstow Granada to buy tickets for a Beatles concert. The police kept the waiting crowd across the street until the cinema had its last show. Then they stopped all the traffic and allowed...