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by TylerE 2008 days ago
You are confusing popularity with quality.

Was AOL the best ISP? McDonalds the best food?

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(Also, an aside it's possible for it to be totally true too)

Early Google users definitely trended towards power users, and if the average early Google user made 3x as many queries as the average Altavista user, Google would have higher actual query volume.