lynx-dev LYNX: "... to foil watson-like programs ... that avoid advertising (notices)???"

[David Combs]

I noticed this in newsgroup comp.emacs -- any relevance to lynx?

Here it is:


> Article: 60378 of comp.emacs
> From: Eric Marsden <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: comp.emacs
> Subject: Re: dict.el
> Date: 23 Jan 2000 18:02:28 +0100
> 
> >>>>> "ly" == LIN Yong <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   ly> BTW, you other package: watson.el is interesting (since I like
>   ly> meta-search engine)? What's your plan to add more search engine,
>   ly> like Hotbot.com, alltheweb.com?
> 
> the problem is that the HTML generated by search engines changes
> (because of upgrades, or perhaps simply to foil watson-like programs,
> whose users get to avoid the advertising which pays for the search
> engines). I don't have time to maintain all those plugins (though
> contributions are welcome :-).
> 
> I am investigating the use of native Sherlock plugins (intended for
> the Sherlock metasearch application on MacOS) to avoid this problem.
> 
> 
>    <URL:http://www.chez.com/emarsden/downloads/watson.el>
> 
> -- 
> Eric Marsden
> 
>