Do you know a solution to these 2 problems? Overcoming them would help a lot of people find what they need in web searches. I am using Internet Explorer 5 on Windows 2000.
PROBLEM 1
Mostly links change color to purple when they are visited in search engines.
I used to think that the links were purple because they were stored in the history. However, I have several URL's in my history, but the links are no longer purple, even though the exact URL's are the same. Do you know why this is?
Is there a way, or is there any software that would maintain the links in the color they change to after visiting them for an indefinite period? For example, it would be good if those links that change from blue to purple remained purple indefinitely.
PROBLEM 2
I would like to get a team of people to do a search for something that would take one person too much time. The problem is different members of the team would go to the same websites, and contact the same people, asking the same questions. This would waste time and annoy people.
A solution could be if each member of the team emailed the other members a list of the URL's they have visited, perhaps in a history file. Each member would combine the URL lists to form a "total URL list". It would be good if each member of the team had software to color the links on their webpages a different color if they are in the "total URL list". Then, the blue links would indicate sites nobody in the team have been to, and purple links would indicates sites that have been visited by someone in the team. I am not sure if there is a way to install and combine the history folders of the different members of the team.
Do you know an easy way to do this or any software that could help?
I have written to google.com and asked them if there was a way to search so the search would only bring up URL's with a certain letter. But they said they did not have this feature yet. The project could involve one person doing a search on all the URL's beginning with "A" and another person would do all the URL's beginning with "B". Others would do other letters. This would save overlap or two people in the team searching on the same URL addresses. It would also save similar emails being sent to the same webmasters asking the same thing, if people in the team were writing letters.
Do you have any suggestions on the easiest way to do this?
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Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.
Answer Problem 1 - Windows maintains a history of sites you visit and links followed. Frankly I'm not sure where that information is specifically stored. Whether its in the History folder, the Registry and/or in Temp Internet folders. But its not stored permanently. You can adjust the length of time the History is maintained but its still not stored permenantly. I don't know of any software that does this. If you want to save a link that you may want to go back to, that's what Favorites are for.
Problem 2 - I can think of a solution to this that would be fairly simple. Create a links page on a WEB server. members of the team would have access to add URLs to the page as they visit them.
