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		calgoo on June 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's PageRank patent has expired Yahoo's content was mostly US based if i remember correctly. The reason i switched to Google from Altavista was because of the reduced ads and clean look on the page. The results where about the same back then.

mercer on June 1, 2019 [–]

IIRC speed played a huge role too in part because of the cleaner page, but also in part because of whatever voodoo they used to deliver results.

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