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Only 8 years old but already dominating web search industry. They destroyed AltaVista within like 5 years.

The "web search industry" back then wasn't very large. AltaVista was kind of a PR project at DEC. It took Doubleclick's supposed reverse take-over of Google to crack the nut of how to make money from web search.

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