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The optimism of typing a question into a box that owes you nothing.
means To look carefully for something you haven't found yet, whether it's a lost key or an answer typed into a box.
from From Old French 'cerchier' (to go about seeking), itself from Late Latin 'circare' meaning to go around or wander through — rooted in 'circus,' a circle. The oldest sense is literally circling a place, scanning every corner, before the word drifted from physical searching to the mental kind.
- algorithm origin
- binary search needs only log2(n) steps, not n
- everyday irony
- you search for keys you're already holding
- linguistic cousin
- circle and search share the same Latin root
- search engines
- early web search was literally human-curated lists