XPost: rec.arts.anime.misc   
   From: eliddell@no.patience.for.spam   
      
   On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 16:39:04 +0000, Warewolf wrote:   
      
   > Inu-Yasha  wrote in news:VmWqx.181567$RR7.115606   
   > @fx13.iad:   
   >   
   >> On 7/19/2015 2:17 PM, Warewolf wrote:   
   >>> And, in other news, the new Google Maps is ***GARBAGE!!!***   
   >>>   
   >>> *sheds a tear for how search engines like AltaVista *used* to work*   
   >>> T-T *before beginning another session of Serious Sam*   
   >>>   
   >> I use to use Webcrawler when I was on a phone line modem.   
   >   
   > Well, the advantage of AltaVista (before one of the programmers fucked   
   > it up) was that you could use symbols to enhance your searches.   
   >   
   > + would add words, phrases or 'grouped terms' to search for - would   
   > remove sites with certain words, phrases or 'grouped terms' from the   
   > search list "" would group words into phrases, of course () would make   
   > AltaVista search for terms grouped within 100 words of each other (ie   
   > (strawberry... ...jam))   
   >   
   > It was a very efficient system until someone bungled it and I don't   
   > believe that anyone has matched or surpassed this method since.   
   >   
   > (If someone has, please let me know)   
      
   The first three are standard and were supported by every major   
   search engine for a while--DuckDuckGo supports them, and actually   
   Google does too *if* you can find the sidebar link to turn on   
   "literal" search results.  The parentheses I've never seen before.   
      
   I preferred Infoseek, back in the halcyon world of ~20 years ago.   
   My old 9600-baud modem is still floating around somewhere.   
      
   E. Liddell   
      
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