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Like Altavista locked Google out.
by frandroid 12y ago
Like Altavista locked Google out.
- nostrademons 12y agoAltavista falls under the "parent company believes it's an inconvenient sideshow, a technology demo for the company's main products" clause. The point of Altavista was to demonstrate the power of DEC's Alpha chips. That made it politically unfeasible to adopt one of Google's key innovations, using large quantities of commodity hardware to power innovative new algorithms.