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There is a hack to have the desktop Altavista search tool index gopher... https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for-gopher https://blog.benj
by scruffyherder 8y ago
There is a hack to have the desktop Altavista search tool index gopher...
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for-gopher https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for...
I've done it with a static set of data, the UTZoo Usenet data...
http://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com http://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com
Shame it died on the vine, distributed, and curated search was a powerful tool in the days of Veronica and Archie
- nl 8y agoistributed, and curated search was a powerful tool in the days of Veronica and Archie No it wasn't. I'm old enough to have (tried to) use it, and it was terrible. It was usually quicker and got better results to manually connect to FTP sites, and run directory listing on likely directories untily ou found what you were looking for.
- scruffyherder 8y agoI'm old enough to have used it as well, and was able to find things with it..