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  1. Ask HN: Does Google bury relevant results 3 pages deep?

    Someone made this claim here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816968 The user name was “mtillman” if you want to find the comment in that page. He cited this court document as a source:…

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  2. Ask HN: Does anyone know how many pages are in Perplexity's search index?
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  3. Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo ever had it's own index?

    They say they have their own crawler, but it must just be for instant answers because all of the “blue links” come from Bing. Did they ever have their own index which added to the results? What was DuckDuckGo like when…

    3 points 1
  4. Ask HN: Who else thinks they should add GOTO statements to Python?
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  5. Ask HN: Are all modern meta-search engines lame?

    It seems like there is no modern meta-search engine that gets all the available results (by paginating) from its sources, and then crawls them and re-ranks them. As far as I can tell from the paper, this is what the…

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  6. Ask HN: Is Common Crawl used exhaustively by any search engine?

    The Common Crawl has about 300 billion pages in it, and if you downloaded all of it in extracted text format it would only take up about 816 TB compressed. If someone were to make a search engine with this I think it…

    8 points 1
  7. Search engines keep disappearing mysteriously (archive.org)
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  8. There was almost a full-text search engine for the WayBack Machine (archive.org)
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  9. Interesting/Odd (and Surprisingly Impactful) Search Engine History Tidbits (archive.org)
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