On 6/26/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/26/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
Y'know, Google used to offer such a service- they'd reply with a link to a cached and compressed copy on their servers.
A link? What's the point?
Steve
The idea was that certain people could not afford to spend all the time on their crappy dialups to actually run a manual web search, checking out the various links and such; so they composed a search query offline as an email, then set up their software to briefly connect online and fire off the query. A while later, Google would send an email back with the results, and instead of connecting to the actual servers for the various links, the user would connect to Google's servers, which compressed and filtered the web page concerned so that far less information had to be actually transmitted. I don't know if it was very popular; I only heard of it once, and years ago.
~maru