The Fall of Yahoo! and Search Engines of the Past

The Takeaway

After Yahoo! announced yesterday 2,000 job cuts,  we look back at past search engines like Archie, AskJeeves and Hotbot.  Steven Levy from WIRED magazine joins us to discuss how the idea of search on the Internet has evolved. Steven Levy is a senior writer for WIRED magazine and author of “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.”

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