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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by kalleboo on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:54AM (#30732494)
Even before Google, people would stuff the bottom of their page with black on black keyword stuffing to game Altavista
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Re:If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? by oriolid on Saturday March 19, 2022 @10:31AM (#30734010)
This exactly. Google was an almost overnight success because in the beginning it gave much more useful results than Altavista and others even when they had indexed a small fraction of what Altavista had.
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