EU Open Web Search project kicked off

Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by rrwo on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:05PM (#32916368)

It will be interesting to see what the index contains, and how it is structured.

What made Google such a game changer was that they based their index not just on the contents, but on how pages linked to each other.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by arjenpdevries on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:13PM (#32917166)

That's the marketing story. I think it's because they didn't clutter their homepage like AltaVista did.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by margarina72 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:14PM (#32919854)

I was a heavy AltaVista user back in the time, I can tell you Google results were really higher quality, it wasn't only their homepage (even if that was also quite refreshing).

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by rrwo on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:36AM (#32923595)

Nope. It's actually how it worked. They patented it and published papers about it.

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