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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by kube-system on Monday April 24, 2023 @11:14PM (#35696144)
Some of the first search engines I used were paid: JSTOR and LexisNexis.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by imoverclocked on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:06AM (#35696394)
I can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Both of those are alive and well. Since at least the early 1990s, there have been free search engines. eg: Archie, Infoseek, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, etc…
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by kube-system on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @12:43AM (#35696574)
I’m serious. Just saying: paid options like LexisNexis (and a couple others) offered online information search services that date back to the 70s.

The 90s was the advent of free World Wide Web search. It wasn’t the advent of online search engines.

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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by imoverclocked on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @01:49AM (#35696937)
I mean, card catalogues and the Dewey decimal system go back a century before that. Public libraries go back much further in different forms.

Just because you can pay for information/search, doesn’t mean there isn’t a way to get it for free.

In the context of this thread, these all feel like straw man arguments.

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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by kube-system on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @11:26AM (#35701801)
I wouldn't call a card catalog a search engine.
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Re:Apple wins the antitrust court battle with Epic Games, co... by andsoitis on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @02:41AM (#35710245)
What point are you trying to make?
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