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Re:Google’s top search result is Google by magicalist on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#23976445)
> There certainly did used to be competition to Google Translate but Google crushed them by promoting their own services (which came later)[1].

Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista, then ultimately bought babelfish and let it rot, all several years before google translate came out.

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Re:Google’s top search result is Google by jsjohnst on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:51PM (#23981537)
> Yahoo was the search engine that crushed altavista

If you mean “bought Altavista and then squandered it”, then sure, but they definitely never crushed Altavista from my POV.

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