Well a couple of sites that offered string searches but went the way of the dodo after certain companies got their way, the old computing.net of early 2000s ess

Well a couple of sites that offered string searches but went the way of the dodo after certain companies got their way, the old computing.net of early 2000s essence before it took its unfortunate path, and tehparadox.com (which though a warez forum and yeah it was bound to die, it had an interesting and diverse community that someone would answer those tricky technical questions in regard to tv media, etc.)