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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by jobigoud on Saturday February 16, 2019 @02:28AM (#19177555)
Back then there was also a distict possibility that there was indeed not a single web page written about a given topic.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by sethammons on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:06AM (#19178113)
Reminds me of a Google Whack: a two word query that returned exactly one result. Mine was zoomorphic kazoos. Those days are gone.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by jacquesm on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:24AM (#19178655)
> Those days are gone.

9130 webpages agree with you.

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