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Google took over because PageRank was a revolutionary change over the evolutionary changes that came before (think Lycos -> Altavista). All anyone needs to do i
by pkaeding 10y ago
Google took over because PageRank was a revolutionary change over the evolutionary changes that came before (think Lycos -> Altavista). All anyone needs to do is to come up with the next revolutionary thing. Just do that, and you will overturn Google and take over the world.
Keep in mind that Google hasn't been a superpower for very long. All of this 'no one can ever disrupt Google' talk is nonsense.
- ap22213 10y agoI know all the history books say it was PageRank, but that wasn't the only reason. As I remember things, Google gained adopters as much from its interface being super fast, dead simple, and easily shareable.
- tracker1 10y agoI have to agree.. I remember the first time I saw google search... I was still using yahoo as it was my home page at the time. I found the yahoo version much more useful, that it outweighed google's better results. Over the course of that year, I saw things get so bad with Y!, that you could sign up for a new email address, and before you could change your opt-out settings, it was too late, the address was sold, and you already had spam in your inbox. That's when Yahoo lost me as a user... To this day, I have seen decisions of Google that I may not agree with... and others that make me leery in terms of depending on their products/applications. But nothing so sleazy that they've lost me as a user/customer. I know what their business model is... but afaik, they aren't directly selling my information to third parties. This is a pretty big deal.
- rdancer 10y agoYou remember your searches on Altavista, Yahoo, or Hotbot having the same quality as Google???