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N'ah, I remember that era. Search engines were basically worthless. Google was the first one to get the formula right. Before Google, search engines were basic
by shadowgovt 3y ago
N'ah, I remember that era. Search engines were basically worthless. Google was the first one to get the formula right.
Before Google, search engines were basically just doing keyword matching and so you'd have the issue that every search for a programming topic landed you on expertsexchange. Google was the first to start leveraging click-away signal, and they were able to successfully down-sample keyword-farmers like that one and their ilk.
- chongli 3y agoSearch engines were bad in the 90's, but the web was much smaller and community-driven. Most of the websites people visited were created by individuals and people linked to each other to form web rings.
- shadowgovt 3y agoI remember. It was the worst. Crawling a ring all day to find useful content was incredibly inconvenient.
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoExpertsexchange was one of the main reasons I began contributing to Stack Overflow in 2010-ish.