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user-inactivated · 3045 days ago · link · · parent · post: The four accomplishments that can't be taken away from Marissa Mayer
It wasn't that they used a spider to index the Web that was advantageous to google, lots of search engines were doing that. It was that they weren't just doing conventional text search to return results, so they wouldn't fall for the spider traps that filled every other search engine's results for every query with porn. Yahoo avoided that problem too, but in a ridiculously labor intensive way. And I agree with pg on this one, what killed them wasn't their technical faults, it was that they were a tech company run by marketing people.