sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down17
arrow-up1147arrow-down1external-linkRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”arstechnica.comsanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-214 hours agoBasically, it was as shit then as Google is currently. Actually, it was still slightly better; at least they acknowledged operator signs in the search (+, -, putting phrases in quotes, etc). Google doesn’t even do that anymore.
minus-squareMongostein@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agoI think it was better solely for the fact that you wouldn’t get ads in your search results
Basically, it was as shit then as Google is currently. Actually, it was still slightly better; at least they acknowledged operator signs in the search (+, -, putting phrases in quotes, etc). Google doesn’t even do that anymore.
I think it was better solely for the fact that you wouldn’t get ads in your search results