# Before Google took over, search was a wide-open experiment

Getting a website listed on Yahoo in 1996 required persuading a living, breathing person that your business had earned its place. Nicole M. Radziwill spent that decade working as a systems administrator, programmer and project manager, and the ritual has stayed with her. "I was a sysadmin for an 'ec

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| Published | 7 August 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/before-google-took-over-search-was-a-wide-open-experiment/