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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by dnautics on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:18PM (#14346388)
yep, google had a better indexing of the net and also had exact string search. Altavista only had exact string search (which was better than yahoo). Since then, google no longer reliably gives you exact string searches.
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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by jcl on Monday May 15, 2017 @09:12PM (#14346659)
I've noticed Google is pretty good about finding exact matches when you put the search terms in quotes.
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Re:What was it like to self-learn programming before Stack O... by dnautics on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @11:23AM (#14350272)
Used to be better.
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