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In some way, didn't Google become Alta Vista?
by msk-lywenn 2y ago
In some way, didn't Google become Alta Vista?
- linsomniac 2y agoHow so? My memory of Alta Vista was so-so search results with a top page littered with garbage.
- solardev 2y agoExactly
- eitland 2y agoExactly like Google since 2011 +/- 2 years (the so-so search results part) and Google the last few years (the littered with garbage part)? I have used Google since probably 2001-2002 sometime and a number of other search engines before. It is rather obvious to me and I have writing and screenshots from around the time quality took a dive that supports it.
- marginalia_nu 2y agoI think over time the story has become that AV and Yahoo were overtaken by Google because the latter had a cleaner design, which if you think about it for more than a moment doesn't really constitute much of a moat.
- eitland 2y agoGoogle was also technically better when it released and importantly there was no way to buy ones way to the top. Back then I think people mostly agreed that the results that ranked on top in Google generally were there because of criteria that benefited the end user. I mean, even as crazy as Google results has been the last few years they have still managed to be better than Bing and DDG who both manages to have worse ranking and also like Google completely ignore my doublequotes.
- linsomniac 2y agoReminder: Alta Vista looked like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#/media/File:Altavista-1999.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#/media/File:Altavist...
- mastercheph 2y agoGoogle