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My experience, or at least my recollection, was quite different. I had no complaints whatsoever with AltaVista not adding pages to the index quickly enough; ra
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
My experience, or at least my recollection, was quite different. I had no complaints whatsoever with AltaVista not adding pages to the index quickly enough; rather, it is that the results increasingly appeared to be random pages that happened to contain the search term, and you might need to wade through several pages of results to find what you were looking for. With Google, the page you wanted seemed to almost uncannily be located toward the top of the list. At the time, it seemed like magic.
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- aneth 16y agoI agree. The claim that other search engines couldn't keep up does not gel with my recollection, and is probably being made by people who were not searching the web daily in 1998. Google won because they were good at relevance, not index size. In fact, I recall AltaVista was the go to site for obscure pages that google had not indexed.