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These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. But in reality they kept their useds using techniques like marketing, vendor lock in and monopolistic practices. T
by globular-toast 3y ago
These are not necessarily mutually exclusive. But in reality they kept their useds using techniques like marketing, vendor lock in and monopolistic practices. They aren't competing based on quality of search results.
- ysofunny 3y ago> They aren't competing based on quality of search results. not anymore, but when they first started out they certainly were much better than everything else available at the time
- sitkack 3y agoSpam never impacted me on Alta Vista because I used the advanced query operators almost exclusively, Google was my alt when I wasn't finding what I needed. Had AV addressed spam sooner, Google would not have grown as fast. And we wouldn't see them as the single dominant pretend-benevolent player they are today. There is no competition in search from multiple reasons, many of them from Google anticompetitively paying to be the default.