[gopher] Improving Gopher Searches

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > 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.

They did, but I don't know what the format was (I imagine similar,
however).

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