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"Once
we saw dtSearch in action, we immediately knew
we found exactly what we needed."
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CodeHound.com,
the Visual Basic Web Portal, uses dtSearch
An
Internet search engine just for Visual Basic developers
to search Visual Basic knowledge stores on the Internet
is here! And none too soon, as there are now *a lot*
of sites with Visual Basic-related content.
Take the search: <asp and
(ado w/10 sql) and not cdo> Entering this
search in HotBot retrieves as the top match--with particular
irony--a list entitled: "Unsolved Questions. Do
YOU know the answer?" Inputting the same search
on WebCrawler provides a programming tools catalog.
The
same search on CodeHound finds dozens of relevant Web
pages. The top two ranked pages are a newsletter on
www.vbtechniques.com and an article "Using ASP
and ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) for Database Access"
on VBWM.com. The search also retrieves several ZIP files
containing relevant information, and over a dozen Microsoft
Knowledge Base articles.
Users can visit CodeHound.com through a browser like
any other Internet search engine. Or users can download
CodeHound's free Visual Basic add-in, providing for
searching of CodeHound.com's knowledge base from within
the Visual Basic IDE.
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"The
real power behind CodeHound is the dtSearch
Engine. The success of CodeHound depends on
how quickly and easily our users can find the
data they need."
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There are two basic steps to CodeHound's search processes.
The first is collecting the relevant Web sites and other
material for searching. For this, CodeHound uses the CodeHound
Spider. As CodeHound's FAQ puts it:
"Think of the CodeHound Spider as an untamed spider
on a leash. Most search engines, like AltaVista, set their
spiders free to roam the Internet. Others, like Yahoo!,
rely on human editors to create their Web index. CodeHound
is different...we combine the two processes.
The CodeHound Spider automatically navigates and indexes
Web sites so that our users can perform full-text searches
(like AltaVista), but it only navigates sites deemed appropriate
by our Visual Basic editors (like Yahoo!)...."
The second step is using the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine's
sophisticated boolean search options to sift through this
massive Visual Basic collection of resources. "The
real power behind CodeHound is the dtSearch Engine. The
success of CodeHound depends on how quickly and easily
our users can find the data they need. Of all the products
we reviewed, dtSearch gave us the performance edge we
needed. The search options are vast and the search results
are lightning quick. Once we saw dtSearch in action, we
immediately knew we found exactly what we needed."
dtSearch Corp. for its part is exceedingly pleased that
this terrific site is using dtSearch. In the words of
the President of dtSearch, a practicing programmer: "When
I need VB help, I'm using CodeHound." |
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www.dtsearch.co.uk
Tel: 0208 554 8660 Fax: 0208 554 0665
info@dtsearch.co.uk
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