Re: Future of FAQ Archives..

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Kent Landfield (kent@landfield.com)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 16:24:58 -0600 (CST)


# I meant yahoo-as-an-example rather than yahoo-as-exclusive. The point was
# it's at least *conceivable* that FAQ archive names can be mapped onto various
# people's hierarchical index structures, so that FAQs can be made to show up in
# places where users look on hierarchical systems, but I don't know what to do
# about the non-hierarchical search engines.

The problem is that the hierarchical index structures (I've been calling
categories) can differ drastically between the search engines except in
the broadest of categories.

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