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1034 points deryilz | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.441s | source
1. bborud ◴[] No.44548619[source]
I remember back in the day, one of the big selling points for Google’s search engine used to be that the advertising didn’t get in the way. Imagine that.
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2. le-mark ◴[] No.44549681[source]
I stopped saying this because no one remembers. Or the people I was talking to were to young. It’s way worse now than askjeeves ever was!
3. RevEng ◴[] No.44564643[source]
The big reason for me was that it "just worked". Altavista was the biggest player at the time but you had to learn a while query language to get good results. Google's search engine took plain English keywords and have relevant results.