He said he's trying to turn the venture idea over to someone else. But, he conceded, he hasn't yet rejected the potential benefactor either. Staff researcher Richard Drezen contributed to this report. Two Ways to Search the Web 1. When you're looking for something on the Internet, you generally ask a search engine, such as AltaVista or Yahoo, to find it for you.
Computer sends query via search engine . . . . . .
Members of a network using Gnutella software in essence form a search engine of their own that expands its search exponentially. When a Gnutella user has a query, the software sends it to 10 computers on the network. If the first 10 computers don't have the file, each computer sends it to 10 other computers and so on until, designers say, an estimated million computers would be looking for it in just five to 10 seconds. The program could theoretically check every site on the Web. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.