-brought the Internet much closer to all of us by fantastically improving
-the quality of search on the network. Specialty search engines can do
-this even better. The idea of "intranet" search engines, search engines
-that search within the network of a particular institution, is to provide
-users of that institution with better access to material from that
- institution.
-Businesses do this all the time, enabling employees to have
- access
-to material that people outside the business can't get. Universities
-do it as well.
-</para>
-<para>
-These engines are enabled by the network technology itself.
- Microsoft,
-for example, has a network file system that makes it very easy
-for search engines tuned to that network to query the system for
- information
-about the publicly (within that network) available content.
-Jesse's search engine was built to take advantage of this technology. It
-used Microsoft's network file system to build an index of all the files
-available within the RPI network.
-</para>
-<para>
-Jesse's wasn't the first search engine built for the RPI network.
- Indeed,
-his engine was a simple modification of engines that others had
-built. His single most important improvement over those engines was
-to fix a bug within the Microsoft file-sharing system that could cause a
-user's computer to crash. With the engines that existed before, if you
-tried to access a file through a Windows browser that was on a
- computer
-that was off-line, your computer could crash. Jesse modified the
-system a bit to fix that problem, by adding a button that a user could
-click to see if the machine holding the file was still on-line.
+brought the Internet much closer to all of us by fantastically
+improving the quality of search on the network. Specialty search
+engines can do this even better. The idea of "intranet" search
+engines, search engines that search within the network of a particular
+institution, is to provide users of that institution with better
+access to material from that institution. Businesses do this all the
+time, enabling employees to have access to material that people
+outside the business can't get. Universities do it as well.
+</para>
+<para>
+These engines are enabled by the network technology itself.
+Microsoft, for example, has a network file system that makes it very
+easy for search engines tuned to that network to query the system for
+information about the publicly (within that network) available
+content. Jesse's search engine was built to take advantage of this
+technology. It used Microsoft's network file system to build an index
+of all the files available within the RPI network.
+</para>
+<para>
+Jesse's wasn't the first search engine built for the RPI network.
+Indeed, his engine was a simple modification of engines that others
+had built. His single most important improvement over those engines
+was to fix a bug within the Microsoft file-sharing system that could
+cause a user's computer to crash. With the engines that existed
+before, if you tried to access a file through a Windows browser that
+was on a computer that was off-line, your computer could crash. Jesse
+modified the system a bit to fix that problem, by adding a button that
+a user could click to see if the machine holding the file was still
+on-line.