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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by statictype on Sunday October 02, 2022 @07:20AM (#33054935)
It was totally low hanging fruit. Try building a search engine today. The barriers to entry are much harder. Finding useful sites and filtering out spam are much more difficult now than when Google started. The signal to noise ratio on the internet has plummeted.

This is what everyone thought in 1999. Search engines were a solved problem in a crowded market where there could be little room for new contender And whatever limitations we had in search were just inherent in how it all worked and we just had to deal with it.

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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by hahajk on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:00AM (#33055538)
The existence and popularity of Dogpile was an admission that search engines were not solved yet. We just used all of them all at once understanding they were each imperfect.
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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by Breza on Friday October 14, 2022 @02:06PM (#33206840)
Oh wow, I haven't thought about Dogpile in years. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by blitzar on Sunday October 02, 2022 @10:15AM (#33056036)
> This is what everyone thought in 1999. Search engines were a solved problem in a crowded market

We must have lived in different 1999's

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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by Retric on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:30AM (#33055711)
Google didn’t solve really search, it solved an at the time fairly new and related problem of low quality websites. Arguing about the inadequacy of early search engine in that context is like arguing that email clients in 1985 should have included spam filters.
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Re:Stadia died because no one trusts Google by fallingknife on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:46AM (#33055820)
How would you even start today? Your crawlers would be blocked from most of the internet.
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