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Not just avoiding spam but some meta search engines (Dogpile IIRC) could also search specialist search engines like White Pages and Yellow Pages (long before Ye
by giantrobot 3y ago
Not just avoiding spam but some meta search engines (Dogpile IIRC) could also search specialist search engines like White Pages and Yellow Pages (long before Yelp etc existed). You'd be able to find business listings and contact info that wasn't normally found on web search engines. They could also include FTP search results which was useful as public anonymous FTPs had yet to fall from use.