Google's Pending IPO (Of Limited Value)

Thu Oct 16 23:33:08 PDT 2003

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:21:44 -0700, richard childers / kg6hac 
<fscked at pacbell.net> wrote:

> How long will it be before someone writes an application which, once 
> distributed, replaces Google as the premier search engine, worldwide, 
> redundantly cached, perhaps language-neutral, with error checking to 
> protect against cache poisoning and encrypted channels to prevent 
> in-transit corruption of results?
>
> I'd give it five years at the outside; two years seems more likely, at 
> the speed things are moving and with the vast number of unemployed, but 
> brilliant, software engineers idle. It could already be undergoing 
> testing in a garage somewhere, right now, as I type. It wouldn't 
> surprise me.

It's already here.  It's called Grub:
http://www.grub.org/