Nigel Williams wrote:
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:27:27PM +0100, Jochen Kunz
wrote:
Interesting question: Would google have happened
if Altavista wherent
ruined?
Yes, because they came up with a much better algorithm to determine
relevance of web pages.
What I liked about Altavista is if I just remembered a fragment of text
on a web page, or in a Usenet post, it could find it. This of course was
late 90's.
Google with page rank, along with the other search engines doing their
own tweak of page rank, gave me the "most relevant to my search page"
using their algorithm, and often not the one I wanted.
Tim.