Re: Surfulater

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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.

Outliners.com Message ID: 4554

Posted by 100341.2151
2005-11-05 10:15:49

Daly -

At a cursory glance, it looks a lot like ContentSaver, which it cites as a rival. After starting with SurfSaver (which had at the time a lot of problems, now largely resolved, I believe), I moved to ContentSaver, but finally ended up with Net Snippets on Graham’s advice.

What finally determined matters for me was the fact that Net Snippets does not tie one to a proprietory method of saving web pages, but saves them as htm ones. Although this means one loses the benefits of compression, it allows me to index the the NS content with an indexed search program (e.g, dtSearch, Wilbur) - along with all my other research documents on my hard disk - and query everything at once.

Ideally, one wants to be able to search everything one has (IMHO) at one and the same time. Having parts of one’s data locked up in various proprietory database formats makes this difficult to do. I am not sure how Surfulater handles this issue, but it would be a tie-breaker for me :-).

Derek

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