[TomGuy]

Google used to be very good for locating older FR articles.

However, I think FR now has a cgi file or similar script that prohibits Google from being able to 'index' or 'search' FR articles that are more than a few days old.

This is a detriment to FR.

Too many good threads get lost after a short while. If one tries to relocate an old thread, that becomes a difficult task, unless one remembers a specific bookmark link or keyword.

The current FR search requires that any search be more than 3 characters. That makes searching for FBI, CIA, CBS, NBC, CNN, GOP, etc., useless.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Searches are a huge performance hit on any system, I think. Unless the system is put together to build an index as articles are entered....

IBM had a mainframe package called STAIRS....which apparently has been used by others to build packages.....see this:

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Dataflight Software

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Loads an ATMS data set from IBM's STAIRS mainframe full-text database, into a Concordance database.

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I like this:

A Brief Techno-History- Flash presentation