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16th February 2019 - Link Blog

Discussion about Altavista on Hacker News. Fascinating thread on Hacker News where Bryant Durrell, a former Director from Altavista provides some insider thoughts on how they lost against Google.

Posted 16th February 2019 at 6:57 pm

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