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I remember when google came out I didn't quite understand what was different, and hated the fact that I couldn't use operators such as +-(). The feeling lucky b
by joshuak 13y ago
I remember when google came out I didn't quite understand what was different, and hated the fact that I couldn't use operators such as +-(). The feeling lucky button further reinforced the feeling that google was a dumbed down interface for the masses that wasn't for professionals. Took me a bit to realize that the results where better then AltaVista regardless of the reduced sculptability.
EDIT: haha now it's been so long I've even forgotten the operators. They where the boolean operators AND, OR, NOT etc. spelled out, and other very useful sculpting tools.
http://www.netstrider.com/search/altavista.html http://www.netstrider.com/search/altavista.html
- wslh 13y agoIn the early times of Google I switched back and forth to Altavista because the NEAR operator was the way to adjust the precision of my terms.
- threeseed 13y agoI remember when Google came out and vividly remember what was different. It was the UI. It was clean, sparse and without any ads. For me the search results were across the board worse than Altavista but better specifically in searching API documentation.
- sixothree 13y agoIt's hard to believe today but one innovation in the google home page was that you didn't actually have to click into the text box to begin typing. For some reason every other search engine at the time required you to do this one little extra step.
- voltagex_ 13y agoAKA the "Billion Dollar Javascript" - http://www.branded3.com/blogs/billion-dollar-javascript/ http://www.branded3.com/blogs/billion-dollar-javascript/
- hayksaakian 13y agoThanks for the link, it was a great read.
- altcognito 13y agoIn the initial time where alta vista were seriously co-existing as search engines (on that graph, in the time before they crossed paths in usage) Alta Vista was a little nicer because it really was a much more raw look at the web. If I did a search for 4 keywords in a row, the first ten hits were generally an exact match. (there weren't as many cloned sites etc... so this was a reasonable thing to do) I miss that aspect of the web.
- rodgerd 13y agoReally? I started using Google before it had its own domain, and was eagerly showing to people. AltaVista had started shitting up its interface with intrusive ads by then IIRC, but more importantly while the arcane combinations I needed to get decent results made me feel like a wizard, I could get as good if not better responses just typing a few terms into Google.
- altcognito 13y agoThat's what I remember, but yknow, it's been over a decade so memories fade. I remember that it took me a little bit of time to transition from trying to guess combinations of words that would appear in my target documents to just utilizing keywords.