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user-inactivated · 3544 days ago · link · · parent · post: The four accomplishments that can't be taken away from Marissa Mayer
Spider traps! Oh, god the terrors that brings back to the memory buckets. 100% agree here.It was that they weren't just doing conventional text search to return results, so they wouldn't fall for the spider traps that filled every other search engine's results for every query with porn.
And I agree with pg on this one, what killed them wasn't their technical faults, it was that they were a tech company run by marketing people.