[HN Gopher] A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
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A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index
Author : prostoalex
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-02-16 13:46 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| leobg wrote:
| Funny. Been reading this on and off for the last few weeks. Many
| clever tricks used today by SQLite or Google are in fact quite
| ancient technology.
| Finnucane wrote:
| "Duncan finds analogous anxieties in our Age of Search -- the
| suspicion that by making it ever easier to access information,
| Google might in fact be making us lazier and dumber, allowing us
| to glide along the shallows instead of forcing us to venture into
| the depths. Duncan is less worried. "
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| Considering the several discussions here about how Google is
| letting its ad business and other corporate concerns distort
| search, and how users are trying to get around that to find
| actually useful indexing, this seems like a fairly naive
| response.
| mountainb wrote:
| Mainstream search provides easier access to the equivalent of
| junk mail. Some paid search engines that index actually useful
| information can be pretty good. But right now Google just gives
| you the best spam that it can find, and potentially something
| halfway useful like the digital equivalent of a catalog entry
| for a book you can buy.
| alangibson wrote:
| There are paid search engines?
| gowld wrote:
| Lexis-Nexis
| dang wrote:
| One related post but not much there:
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| _Index, a history of the_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28597724 - Sept 2021 (2
| comments)
| bovermyer wrote:
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220216135221/https://www.nytim...
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| I love useful indexes. I didn't realize there were books written
| solely about them, though. I'll have to pick this up.
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