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.
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.