Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself

Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by tomkarlo on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @11:39PM (#5412733)

The same could be said when they started Google - at the time Altavista was dominant in search. If you're that easily dissuaded, you shouldn't be in startups. There's almost always an existing solution to the problem you're trying to solve.

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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by pessimizer on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:20AM (#5412893)

Altavista wasn't an arm of one of the most powerful, valuable, and influential companies on earth.

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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by tomkarlo on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:43AM (#5412979)

No, but at the time, the Internet was also about 1/100th of what it is today and Altavista was still worth about $3bn. It's hard to picture now, but back in 1999 Altavista and Yahoo were towering giants online.

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Re:Sorry Google; you can Keep it to yourself by res0nat0r on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:45AM (#5412986)

AV was spawned by researchers from DEC in 1995 a full 3 years before Google came on the scene. I'd say Google was the severe underdog at the time.

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