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A "search engine" is an obvious idea. Do you remember when Yahoo was just a page with links on it? Or the time before crawlers? How about when the default was
by mootothemax 15y ago
A "search engine" is an obvious idea.
Do you remember when Yahoo was just a page with links on it? Or the time before crawlers? How about when the default was OR queries instead of AND? The fun of having to search twice if your query contained the word "color," spelt with and without the letter U?
I'm sorry, but you just can't gloss over the above - which is a pretty meagre list at best - and say "that's obvious." If we always stuck with version 1, no innovation would take place.