Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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...That diversity is worth remembering because it shows that search was never necessarily destined to look the way it does now. The pre-Google engines weren’t just failed precursors. They were serious attempts to address a problem that the web had made urgent but not yet solvable in one obvious way. Google won by combining technical rank, usability, and scale at exactly the moment the rest of the Internet was ready to abandon the old order....
Maybe if...
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