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It will be interesting to see what the index contains, and how it is structured.

What made Google such a game changer was that they based their index not just on the contents, but on how pages linked to each other.

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That's the marketing story. I think it's because they didn't clutter their homepage like AltaVista did.

I was a heavy AltaVista user back in the time, I can tell you Google results were really higher quality, it wasn't only their homepage (even if that was also quite refreshing).

Nope. It's actually how it worked. They patented it and published papers about it.

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