[gopher] Improving Gopher Searches

[Benjamin Newman]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 09:33:59AM -0800, simple at freeshell.org wrote:
> Improving the "freshness" of the Veronica-2 / VISHNU database
> is probably the best way to ensure that recently added material
> is findable.  That got me wondering if perhaps what's needed
> is a local indexer that could be run at least daily, with the
> resulting data ball either left in the root directory for
> retrieval by, or sent in to, the Veronica-2 / VISHNU server(s).
> The idea is to reduce the amount of gopherspace that needs to
> be actively crawled by the Veronica-2 / VISHNU servers which,
> from Cameron's posts, appear to take a while and aren't very
> frequent.
> 

I am of the understanding that Veronica and Jughead did this.
-- 
Benn Newman