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Yahoo made it pointless when it removed FTP search, which was basically the point of that site when it started.
by muyuu 16y ago
Yahoo made it pointless when it removed FTP search, which was basically the point of that site when it started.
- kevinburke 16y agoWhat is FTP Search?
- muyuu 16y agoBack in the day, anonymous FTP were a sizable part of the web (especially for good quality source code and scientific data/papers/comment). Some of them stored full backups of the lion's share of USEnet (and still do to this day). FTPsearch filled a large void, and was blazingly fast compared to other search engines. In these days you waited for 15-20 seconds before the likes of Yahoo, Lycos and Altavista started showing results. Without tabbed browsing, to boot.