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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by reaperducer on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:05PM (#22094058)
That's the problem that web directories solve

Not really. A web directory is a directory of web sites. I can't search a web directory for content within the web sites, which is what a niche search engine would do.

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by Beldin on Sunday January 19, 2020 @06:27PM (#22094891)
On the other hand, the niche search engine depends upon having such a web directory (the list of sites to index).
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by teddyh on Sunday January 19, 2020 @06:39PM (#22094965)
Like WAIS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server

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