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It may be that having experience with Lexis/Nexis, and having built an inverted index search, I was predisposed to AltaVista, but, for quite a while after I fir
by Zigurd 10y ago
It may be that having experience with Lexis/Nexis, and having built an inverted index search, I was predisposed to AltaVista, but, for quite a while after I first used Google, I preferred AltaVista, until it began to die from under-investment. But now, for sure, Google has made the "just throw words at it, never mind spelling" model work really well.
- kyledrake 10y agoI also recall vastly preferring AltaVista to Google search results, and was very confused when Yahoo switched to Google for it's deep-search. For a long period, it did much better than Google did on search.
- m-j-fox 10y agoSad story. Digital's best idea for monetizing Altavista was to plug their server hardware to the 0.001% of users who might be in a position to buy some. If Google truly invented something revolutionary, it was a business model.