seriously, the difference between google and everyone else was vast.
You had a lot of services that were literally amalgamations of all the other searches. They would would automatically go search 3, 4, 5+ other search engines because they all sucked in their own way.
And then google came along. Google was good enough that the approach of sifting through multiple search engines wasn't necessary. All those other search engines disappeared practically overnight. No one who experienced google would touch anything else.
google today might not be as technically superior anymore since we as a species understand the search space better, but at the time? google was absolutely game changing.
You had a lot of services that were literally amalgamations of all the other searches. They would would automatically go search 3, 4, 5+ other search engines because they all sucked in their own way.
And then google came along. Google was good enough that the approach of sifting through multiple search engines wasn't necessary. All those other search engines disappeared practically overnight. No one who experienced google would touch anything else.
google today might not be as technically superior anymore since we as a species understand the search space better, but at the time? google was absolutely game changing.