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by wakeupcall
1000 days ago
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When google first appeared it was a revolution compared to everything else. If you expect this kind of difference, none of the alternative search engines come close. If you are looking for big search engines, there aren't many really, I strongly believe you should give them all a shot and just alternate between them. The biggest takeaway from this is that google isn't massively better than the worst alternative anymore and it sticks mostly due to recognition. |
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At first it wasn't even because their search was that much better than anyone else's. What made google popular was that it wasn't a massive, messy, ad-filled page of things you didn't care about. Other search engines were bloated "portals" that tried to do everything: email, news, shopping mall, weather, etc
Google had a simple clean interface that loaded instantly on a typical dial up connection and that's really what got people to make it their homepage. Today, google has slowly turned into exactly what it was created to solve. Ad-filled bloated pages that try to be everything by pushing things you don't care about in your face.