Comments on: Fishing For Dipsie http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fishing_for_dipsie Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Tue, 21 May 2013 16:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Tim Sellers http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24688 Tim Sellers Fri, 23 Sep 2005 05:05:12 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24688 <p>Dipsie is dead, not that it was ever alive anyway, and its founder was always all talk and no product.</p> Dipsie is dead, not that it was ever alive anyway, and its founder was always all talk and no product.

]]> By: John McCormac http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24687 John McCormac Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:30:22 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24687 <p>This wonderful form filling spider sounds like something straight out of O'Reilly's "Spidering Hacks" book. Most of the sites that use form based selection do so because they are database backed and have time sensitive data that is continually changing. Thus filling out a form will give a snapshot of data. Now with forms with a lot of variables, what Dipsie would be doing is effectively downloading that site's database. But more surprisingly, what Dipsie has been blowing about in the press releases is not that remarkable or revolutionary. Price comparison websites have being doing this kind of thing for the last few years.</p> <p>I don't think that anyone has seen the Dipsie bot in their logs. Maybe it is operating in stealth mode in order to pretend to be an average user on all those forms/database backed websites. Then again it may just be vapourware. The technology required to spider the web on an ongoing basis and provide search results will require considerable investments as will hiring the people with the expertise and abilities to make such an operation run.</p> <p>I'd like to see new developments in search engine technology but I would not hold my breath for Dipsie's May beta. As for the patent-pending claims - that should be easily verifiable on another form based interface on a database backed website - www.uspto.gov :)<br /> </p> This wonderful form filling spider sounds like something straight out of O’Reilly’s “Spidering Hacks” book. Most of the sites that use form based selection do so because they are database backed and have time sensitive data that is continually changing. Thus filling out a form will give a snapshot of data. Now with forms with a lot of variables, what Dipsie would be doing is effectively downloading that site’s database. But more surprisingly, what Dipsie has been blowing about in the press releases is not that remarkable or revolutionary. Price comparison websites have being doing this kind of thing for the last few years.

I don’t think that anyone has seen the Dipsie bot in their logs. Maybe it is operating in stealth mode in order to pretend to be an average user on all those forms/database backed websites. Then again it may just be vapourware. The technology required to spider the web on an ongoing basis and provide search results will require considerable investments as will hiring the people with the expertise and abilities to make such an operation run.

I’d like to see new developments in search engine technology but I would not hold my breath for Dipsie’s May beta. As for the patent-pending claims – that should be easily verifiable on another form based interface on a database backed website – http://www.uspto.gov :)

]]> By: Eric Baillargeon http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24686 Eric Baillargeon Thu, 01 Apr 2004 05:58:30 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24686 <p>As I post on WmW as Allergic : Where is the dipsie bot in our log ? </p> As I post on WmW as Allergic : Where is the dipsie bot in our log ?

]]> By: carlos Roche http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24685 carlos Roche Thu, 01 Apr 2004 05:39:57 +0000 http://battellemedia.com/archives/2004/03/fishing_for_dipsie.php#comment-24685 <p>Will this search engine be more specific than Google? </p> Will this search engine be more specific than Google?

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