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

Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by derefr on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:40PM (#25479247)

Is there an whole-Web search engine that isn’t a fulltext search engine, but rather works more like grepping a virtual text file that contains the entire Internet, such that one could match on punctuation and so forth?

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by jeffbee on Saturday December 19, 2020 @12:52PM (#25479401)

I don't know ... would you be willing to insert a $1000 bill every time you wanted to make a full pass over such a corpus?

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