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> because search results were comparable to alternatives. As an early user of Google I vehemently disagree. That better results was not due to PageRank alone i
by srean 7y ago
> because search results were comparable to alternatives.
As an early user of Google I vehemently disagree. That better results was not due to PageRank alone is well understood.
- pmoriarty 7y agoI was an early user of Google too, and I don't remember the search results being any better than AltaVista (the dominant search engine at the time) or any of its other competitors. Google was just fast and ad-free, unlike AltaVista, which was ad-infested and slow. That was the attraction for myself and the other people I knew who used it.
- srean 7y agoPerhaps we used to search for different things. AltaVista allowed far more control over operators and filters, but invariably I would have to dig much deeper in ther results to find what I was looking for. On google it would be there on the first page.