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Re:Until further notice, think twice before using Google to ... by pessimizer on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:41AM (#34642515)
Altavista was better. It would certainly return more than the 5 SEO stained results pages that current search engines are repeating over and over again, pretending that they're bigger than they are.
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Re:Until further notice, think twice before using Google to ... by egberts1 on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:23AM (#34643257)
Too bad that Yahoo! absorbed Altavista then made that site defunct since 2013.
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Re:Until further notice, think twice before using Google to ... by acdha on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:36AM (#34643464)
Google was better, too. This is because someone decided it was better to sell ads than give people the most relevant results. It’s not like it’s an unsolved problem in computer science to block persistent spam / scraper / cloaking domains — someone at Google told the people who used to do that to stop.
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