Man, I miss Northernlight. That was a search engine from the late 90s that actually tried to categorize results by topic, and returned a tree structure that you could navigate through. If you entered "Paris Hilton" you got a tree with separate branches for French hotels and for sluts.
But they went subscription-only after a few years, then they went away. Too bad.
"'E could 'a drawed me off a pint," grumbled the old man as he settled down behind a glass. "A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price."
1984, George Orwell. [Doggone lousy Slashdot Unicode support.]
As this story has been submitted several times in the past several days, by various submitter and is going around various other tech forums( https://news.ycombinator.com/i... , https://soylentnews.org/articl... , https://www.reddit.com/r/progr...
"Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit." -- David McCord