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0 pointsDeathArrow2y ago0 comments

> History is littered with bold and ambitious Google killers that went nowhere.

What are some examples of those?

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Well Cuil has already been mentioned, there's A9.com and Quaero; on the open source side there's mozDex, notably Jimbo Wales failed twice with Wikia Search and then Knowledge Engine.

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0 pointsDeathArrow2y ago0 comments

> History is littered with bold and ambitious Google killers that went nowhere.

What are some examples of those?

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marginalia_nu2y ago

Well Cuil has already been mentioned, there's A9.com and Quaero; on the open source side there's mozDex, notably Jimbo Wales failed twice with Wikia Search and then Knowledge Engine.

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