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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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