On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > not true! if you knew how to use a search engine a couple years ago, it
> > would give you the results.. you just had to know how to ask it.  :)
> > 
> > *fondly remembers the days of metacrawler/altavista..*

The neat thing about altavista was (is) that there's hardware
involved.  Basically, they built a box that has so much RAM (TeraBytes,
IIRC) that it could keep all it's searches in memory.

Simple brute force.  Gotta love it!

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