Close. The same people that own the CIA started Google. Then they used their stranglehold over the financial system to ensure that it became a monopoly. Just like Facebook.
When Google started it was hyped by the MSM but offered nothing different from its competitors.
When Google started it was hyped by the MSM but offered nothing different from its competitors.
I can't remember any Google hype before 2001 or so. The first article I read in 1998 or so was in Wired Magazine. The article was about the size of a tamagochi display and rather sceptical about the prospects.
Wired ran its own popular search engine named hotbot, which was what I used most of the time. Before hotbot, all search engines more or less sucked, especially for ego-surfing, because it took three months or longer before you could admire your own beloved articles in search results. (The then still popular Altavista used a single computer with 6 GB (= A LOT) as search engine and server.)
By late 1999 google searched 800 million webpages, but alltheweb.com and northernlight.com searched more and found more sooner, with northerlight promising a searchable OCR archive of every newspaper article since the 1700s but did not deliver.
Pagerank had no visible benefit during that era. In contrast to northernlight and alltheweb, google could not do stemming, i.e. "aviator" and "aviators" were different terms and matched exactly. Not much of a problem for English, but a big problem for most other languages. Nothernlight and alltheweb did do stemming and had a menu for limiting queries to a certain language. At that time, most nerds in my environment used alltheweb and northernlight; normies used MSN and yahoo.
Google had only one advantage when compared to alltheweb an northernlight and that was 150 million dollars of In-Q-Tel funding. Alltheweb and northernlight were not actually in the search business but IT consultants or something, both selling indexers for large companies to use inhouse, among other things. For them, a search engine was a loss-leader and cheap advertising.
The Chinese were blocking google-bots at first, btw., but not Northernlight or Alltheweb. Not for access by Chinese, mind you, but for indexing by what they presumed was the CIA. The Chinese government got Google's number, as did Vladimir Putin, or so it seems.
Google was markedly better as a search engine than its competitors when it started. That's how it got such large market share, that continued onward. Today, they are all pretty much the same. I prefer DuckDuckGo
Google took off because it loaded faster than other search engines, due to not having any advertisments on the home page. Which was important on the last years of dial up. With no advertising revenue on the most seen page, ****who paid for Google?
That helped, but Google did, at it's start, have a superior product due to the way it conducted searches. I'm not a programmer, but not only was it noticeable when I used the damn thing back in 2001 or so compared to, say Alta Vista, but some way the software was written. Everybody's search engine is pretty good now. Google's actually is crappier because of the way they tweak results to give you fake news.
Googles search now sucks because its human curated and censored. They ruined the search engine to hide the true nature of peoples reality and to promote certain politicians and agendas. Google search sucks now.
Yes, now Google has an inferior product. But like a brand loyalty, people on zombie mode continue to use it, though increasingly less over time as better alternatives have arisen.
Close. The same people that own the CIA started Google. Then they used their stranglehold over the financial system to ensure that it became a monopoly. Just like Facebook.
When Google started it was hyped by the MSM but offered nothing different from its competitors.
I can't remember any Google hype before 2001 or so. The first article I read in 1998 or so was in Wired Magazine. The article was about the size of a tamagochi display and rather sceptical about the prospects.
Wired ran its own popular search engine named hotbot, which was what I used most of the time. Before hotbot, all search engines more or less sucked, especially for ego-surfing, because it took three months or longer before you could admire your own beloved articles in search results. (The then still popular Altavista used a single computer with 6 GB (= A LOT) as search engine and server.)
By late 1999 google searched 800 million webpages, but alltheweb.com and northernlight.com searched more and found more sooner, with northerlight promising a searchable OCR archive of every newspaper article since the 1700s but did not deliver.
Pagerank had no visible benefit during that era. In contrast to northernlight and alltheweb, google could not do stemming, i.e. "aviator" and "aviators" were different terms and matched exactly. Not much of a problem for English, but a big problem for most other languages. Nothernlight and alltheweb did do stemming and had a menu for limiting queries to a certain language. At that time, most nerds in my environment used alltheweb and northernlight; normies used MSN and yahoo.
Google had only one advantage when compared to alltheweb an northernlight and that was 150 million dollars of In-Q-Tel funding. Alltheweb and northernlight were not actually in the search business but IT consultants or something, both selling indexers for large companies to use inhouse, among other things. For them, a search engine was a loss-leader and cheap advertising.
The Chinese were blocking google-bots at first, btw., but not Northernlight or Alltheweb. Not for access by Chinese, mind you, but for indexing by what they presumed was the CIA. The Chinese government got Google's number, as did Vladimir Putin, or so it seems.
Google was markedly better as a search engine than its competitors when it started. That's how it got such large market share, that continued onward. Today, they are all pretty much the same. I prefer DuckDuckGo
Google took off because it loaded faster than other search engines, due to not having any advertisments on the home page. Which was important on the last years of dial up. With no advertising revenue on the most seen page, ****who paid for Google?
That helped, but Google did, at it's start, have a superior product due to the way it conducted searches. I'm not a programmer, but not only was it noticeable when I used the damn thing back in 2001 or so compared to, say Alta Vista, but some way the software was written. Everybody's search engine is pretty good now. Google's actually is crappier because of the way they tweak results to give you fake news.
Googles search now sucks because its human curated and censored. They ruined the search engine to hide the true nature of peoples reality and to promote certain politicians and agendas. Google search sucks now.
Yes, now Google has an inferior product. But like a brand loyalty, people on zombie mode continue to use it, though increasingly less over time as better alternatives have arisen.