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One can claim Google's design was crude without claiming its design was worse than Lycos and Altavista. It's especially easy to claim one without the other whe
by brlewis 14y ago
One can claim Google's design was crude without claiming its design was worse than Lycos and Altavista.
It's especially easy to claim one without the other when the whole argument is that design is not a competitive edge for search engines.
- tptacek 14y agoSure. Then you should be able to go find the top sites in 1998, select somehow for the sites where design was a competitive edge, and find among them many examples of designs that are better in some way that is straightforward to explain. I gave up trying, for whatever that's worth. 1998 just looked crappy. Great year for indie rock! Neutral Milk Hotel! Bad year for web design.