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sanitation@sanitation@lemmy.today
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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/
Jeeves from Ask Jeeves holds up a '90s computer monitor with a meme on itArs TechnicaRemembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experimentMost people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
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Blackmist@Blackmist@feddit.uk
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Replying to @⁨sanitation@lemmy.today⁩

I remember Google coming out and changing everything.

It had billions of pages instead of millions.

It returned results in seconds, and by seconds I mean 2-3, not 60.

Everything else became irrelevant overnight.

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tektite@tektite@slrpnk.net
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Replying to an earlier post

Billions of results and almost never anything relevant after the first page.

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