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0 pointsmsk-lywenn1y ago0 comments

In some way, didn't Google become Alta Vista?

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How so? My memory of Alta Vista was so-so search results with a top page littered with garbage.

Exactly like Google since 2011 +/- 2 years (the so-so search results part) and Google the last few years (the littered with garbage part)?

I have used Google since probably 2001-2002 sometime and a number of other search engines before. It is rather obvious to me and I have writing and screenshots from around the time quality took a dive that supports it.

marginalia_nu1y ago

I think over time the story has become that AV and Yahoo were overtaken by Google because the latter had a cleaner design, which if you think about it for more than a moment doesn't really constitute much of a moat.

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solardev1y ago

Exactly

linsomniac1y ago

Reminder: Alta Vista looked like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#/media/File:Altavist...

mastercheph1y ago

Google

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