When Google came out, it delivered far superior search results for one very simple reason. It counted an incoming link to a page as a vote for that page. Pages with the most votes ranked highest in the search results.
Search engines pre-Google didn't use this as a factor in their algos, and so their results were very hit and miss, and easily manipulatable.
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STACKS88 ago
When Google came out, it delivered far superior search results for one very simple reason. It counted an incoming link to a page as a vote for that page. Pages with the most votes ranked highest in the search results.
Search engines pre-Google didn't use this as a factor in their algos, and so their results were very hit and miss, and easily manipulatable.
Judgejewdy ago
oh the irony...