How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss

Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by michaelcampbell on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:46AM (#25478085)

I've largely switched to duckduckgo, which does honor quotes in that way.

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by stinos on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:56PM (#25480611)

Hmm, read this after I posted my other comment :) So, is that a setting? Does a search for "nonexistin gcrap" return no results for you then? It does for me..

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by michaelcampbell on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:56PM (#25481605)

I played with it a bit; it may be limited to one word. So "nonexstin" does come back with sites with that literal word in it. But with 2 words, it does the "what I think you mean" thing. TBH, I have only tried it with one word at a time for my use of "the site must have at least this exact word" type use cases.

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