There Was Almost a Full-Text Search Engine for the Wayback Machine
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The story shares a historical project for a full-text search engine for the Wayback Machine, sparking interest in the potential for improved search functionality in web archives.
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2 months ago
I personally think this is insane, and I would love to know why it didn’t pan out. There are other interesting things in that article too.
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