1998-05-10 22:21:39 +00:00
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The Scour Media Agent (SMA) is a program that is used in conjunction with
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the Scour search service (http://www.scour.net/). This is a new kind of
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search service that specializes in searching for multimedia filetypes
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(video, animation, audio, etc.). They search 6 different protocols and have
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the most comprehensive webcrawlers of any search engine presently in
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existence. The database contains everything from links to streaming video
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lectures on Microbiology (coming soon) to the latest music video from the
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Spice Girls.
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They specialize even further by separating media files into their respective
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types (.avi, .mpg, .mov, .viv, .ram, .mp3, etc.) So, going beyond just
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being able to search for video files, you can specify all the way down to
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the file type.
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This free service started out as a dorm room project by a couple of Computer
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Science students at UCLA.
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Check it out at http://www.scour.net/.
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1998-05-30 12:36:23 +00:00
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[ This port is maintained by Donald Burr <dburr@FreeBSD.ORG>. ]
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