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tags: [world-wide-web, computer-history]
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created: Monday, November 04, 2024
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# ecec56e6_precursors_to_search_engines
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Before search engines as searchable indices of all content on the web, the
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custom was for ISPs, browsers and websites (e.g. Yahoo!) to provide directories
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of links to other sites. They functioned as sort of global web-portals.
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_The Yahoo! homepage from 1999._
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_The AltaVista homepage from 1999. It has a primitive search engine but also
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directories of sites._
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