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

Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by mech422 on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:14PM (#25482200)

So much this... I commented earlier how I miss altvavista search language. Stuff like the 'near' operator was awesome. Want all john doe's papers ? "john" near "doe" got you "John Doe", "Doe, John", "John A. Doe", etc

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Re:How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into th... by wslh on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:09PM (#25482575)

Yes, playing with the near operator was a way to do a manual page rank before Google existed.

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