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Search and Ye Might Find

99% Invisible

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Searching by Keyword

Theoretically, the user could teach the mimics which words were relevant to each other. In essence, the memiks user could build their own little analogue algorithm for search. The idea of searching documents by specific word and then linking related documents together turned out to be right on the mark. About 50 years after venevar dreamed up the memics, his ideas about search came to fruition with a little thing called the world wide web.

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