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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by EGreg on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:38PM (#19172889)
How is it that you could refresh your supplementary index and then couldn’t?
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by BryantD on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:08PM (#19173176)
Two indexes: the supplemental index (refreshed frequently) and the main index (refreshed less often). The latter is the one that wasn't refreshed for an unusually long period of time.
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