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Re:Ask HN: Will there be a better Google? by kyloren on Saturday September 03, 2016 @09:11AM (#12419062)
Yes I have not used altavista but I have read about it, and I've read the book and I know search was stuck back then, my question was why the above comment says search is stuck at the moment, because I don't see search stuck at the moment.
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Re:Ask HN: Will there be a better Google? by Pamar on Saturday September 03, 2016 @11:21AM (#12419510)
I am not the OP but I interpret "research is stuck" as follows:

Remember Altavista (and similar search engines from the era?) it worked, but everyone was using the same approach so you got the same results when you searched for a given word... Then Google arrived and the quality of their results looked like magic.

In terms of "user experience" today does resemble then: Bing, DuckDuckGo... They return a subset of what Google finds, not something qualitatively better.

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