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And before they were using Google they were using Altavista, I don't think Yahoo were using their own search results for very long. I remember switching to Goog
by greendestiny 19y ago
And before they were using Google they were using Altavista, I don't think Yahoo were using their own search results for very long. I remember switching to Google from Altavista. Mostly people changed to Google because it indexed more stuff (hence Google) not because of the better search results. The importance of better search ranking became apparent later, initially you just tended to try to come up with better search terms.
- angstrom 19y agoThere was also Inktomi in there somewhere too. They were eventually acquired by Yahoo. To be fair, Yahoo had a winning strategy of just licensing the search tech from other companies all the way up until Inktomi. Which is part of why it's funny they didn't buy the Google search when it was handed to them on a silver platter.
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