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by abstractwater 6584 days ago
When google came out, search was already hot. Google made it hotter.
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cstejerean 6584 days ago
hot to the end user, the major players didnt seem to care much about it.
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webwright 6583 days ago
Search was NOT hot when Google came out. Lots of SMART people were convinced that you couldn't build a huge business on search and that the real money was in personalized home pages (portals).
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