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I mean, card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system go back a century before that. Public libraries go back much further in different forms.

Just because you can pay for information/search, doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to get it for free.

In the context of this thread, these all feel like straw man arguments.




I wouldn't call a card catalog a search engine.


What point are you trying to make?




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