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At the time, Google's competitor Yahoo!/Overture were 100% pay-for-placement. There was no such thing as organic results.


The company I remember them criticizing was Alta Vista, which did include organic search results intermixed with ads at the time.

>Google may be big with the cyber-cognescenti, but AltaVista is still reaching a lot more users. While AltaVista reaches 17.7% of Web users, Google gets just 7%, according to the latest Media Metrix numbers.

https://www.forbes.com/2000/10/20/1020alta.html?sh=68521b3e7...

They weren't bought by Overture until 2003.




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