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Yes. Moreover, web performance was one of Google's differentiating features right from the beginning. Arguably the most important, in fact.
by gruseom 16y ago
Yes. Moreover, web performance was one of Google's differentiating features right from the beginning. Arguably the most important, in fact.
- arethuza 16y agoI would have said that their key differentiating feature was that they were much better at actually finding relevant stuff than the competitors. I don't think many people stopped using AltaVista because it was too slow.
- romland 16y agoI don't think many people stopped using AltaVista because it was too slow. Maybe. Personally I stopped using it when they started throwing pop-unders at me. Or maybe it was because it jumped on to the whole "portal" craze and other SE's that were cleaner felt quite refreshing.
- gruseom 16y agoI don't think many people stopped using AltaVista because it was too slow. That's exactly why I stopped using AltaVista. I never noticed Google's search results being more relevant. I distinctly remember this because I was aware of the hype around relevancy at the time and was trying to notice a difference. What was magnificently different, though, was Google's subsecond page load and search response times. One interesting thing about marketing is that the reason one gives for using a product is often rather disconnected from its real utility. (The book Positioning is about this.)