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    15 hours ago

    European laws back in the 80s and 90s basically kept killing off anything that could have grown into a Google competitor.

    Draconian copyright laws screwed Europe over rather hard. Took a long time for them to fix it, and by then it was too late.

    Hard to build a search engine back then when you just got sued into the ground.