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    Most people don't realize that it's not the brilliant technology that made them no. 1 but rather that they figure out how to make money without appearing that they are making money. Back in the day there really was no difference between search results of Google, MSN, Yahoo, any other engine but it was Google that appeared that they are not selling you shit at the same time with their bare nothing-but-search-box page. I, like many others, bought into this "they have to be impartial" crap and of course only later realized that they make money by turning me into a commodity - a piece of information that they "sell" to advertisers.

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    • Not true at all. Google's algorithm was always superior. In the early 2000s there was simply no comparison.ETM
    • yeah, but no. i tried a number of searches back in the days and got almost exactly the same results.pr2
    • No, but yeah - if you used the internet in the late 90s, you knew the difference Google Search made.detritus
    • No, but no. Google's "superior technology" was them collecting and matching data about you. Late 90s early 200s i was searching using school's computers and the searches were all the same becaue they didn't have enough info about me.pr2
    • searching using school's computers and the searches were all the same because they didn't have enough info about me.pr2
    • search sucked around the time google came along (2000?) relevance was shot, and google really gave superior resultsmonNom
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