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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by Noumenon72 on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:49PM (#19177129)
I was expecting you to say Google won because it didn't put out one of those adware toolbars crowding your browser. I would never install one of those. I just put Google as my home page.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by ramraj07 on Saturday February 16, 2019 @08:35AM (#19178480)
Times were different back then. And unlike other toolbars I distinctly remember Google's toolbar being actually useful and worth the space.
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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by unilynx on Sunday February 17, 2019 @05:05AM (#19183679)
Only installed it because it was the easiest way to look up a page's pagerank.

Surprised that it still exists! https://www.google.com/intl/nl/toolbar/ie/index.html - and the screenshot even seems to show a "share to google+" :)

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