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radicalbyte on June 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google's PageRank patent has expired

Back then google loaded in a few seconds whilst the competition could take over a minute for the 99% of users who were on a 28.8k dial-up.

It's almost as if the people behind Lycos/Excite/Altavista were all using the internet via a T1 connection from their unis..

spiderfarmer on June 1, 2019 | [–]

I think a big factor is that Google didn’t have to make any money and could keep their homepage as simple as possible.

NicoJuicy on June 1, 2019 | | [–]

Altavista was actually just a tech demo of their servers :)

acct1771 on June 1, 2019 | [–]

And Google had connections to which large organizations from their start that gave them competitive advantage in multiple areas?

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