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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

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

wslh 6y ago
Yes, playing with the near operator was a way to do a manual page rank before Google existed.