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A comment on Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine. Parent comment

Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by anticensor on Saturday February 16, 2019 @04:06PM (#19180947)
Why did you not consider promoting the latest supplemental index into being main one and trigger reindexing?
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by BryantD on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @12:55PM (#19201091)
The supplemental index was relatively tiny -- just new pages.
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