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Originally Posted by Mike L
Very interesting.
I've always believed that the reason for Alta Vista's demise was that their search page was over-crowded with images, headlines, thumbnails, and other distractions, including a fair number of adverts. When Google came along, users instantly took a liking to its clean, uncluttered search page, so much so that it soon knocked Alta Vista from its spot at the top of the search engines.
Mike
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Google had better search algorithms than all the other search engines. That's why. It had nothing to do with your theory.