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There was a beautiful period before Google was reverse bought by DoubleClick where you could find damn near anything. Searching was a solved problem by Inktomi
by giantrobot 7y ago
There was a beautiful period before Google was reverse bought by DoubleClick where you could find damn near anything. Searching was a solved problem by Inktomi and AltaVista but PageRank solved sorting search results (for a while).
Before Google AltaVista's search was pretty good at filtering out the meta tag spam that bubbled up in other search engines.
- gscott 7y agoInfoSeek was also good while it was around.
- RonanTheGrey 7y ago> beautiful period before Google was reverse bought by DoubleClick That's a beautiful way to put it. I remember those days and thing is, much of Google's reputation was built during those days, a coattail they're still coasting on today. In those days I remember you could find anything at all in just a moment. "Information snacking" was a thing, versus "being given the answer we think you want (or the one that will make us the most money)". "Reverse bought by DoubleClick", will have to remember that..
- NoGravitas 7y ago"Reverse bought by DoubleClick" is the best description of Google's degeneration that I've ever seen.