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l0nwlf on Feb 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and de...

> Google has 12 years of the entire history of queries and clicks to mine for signals about how to rewrite queries

How about Yahoo ? They have a longer history I suppose. IMO it's all about quality and engineering.

More importantly why did Google survived and flourished for 12 years ?

scrame on Feb 2, 2011 [–]

They have a longer history, but waaaay less traffic. Also, their early business model was a paid directory, not organic search results.

billybob on Feb 4, 2011 | [–]

They have waaay less traffic only since Google came onto the scene and stole their traffic by virtue of being better.

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