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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by Infernal on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:24PM (#19172759)
Why was that primary index not updated for those several months? What happened that led to that?
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by JadeNB on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:40PM (#19173491)
BryantD responded to a similar question in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19172762).
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by Zenst on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:56PM (#19173063)
I suspect it was management, after all search engines was unprofitable and borderline charity work. It was not until the vision of capitalising thru advertising that the whole market changed and by then, Google had outlasted and innovated the other `charity` offerings of the time.
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