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That is fascinating to me. I feel like there have been numerous instances of design having a huge impact on success, but many of these instances have been over
by kettlecorn 10y ago
That is fascinating to me. I feel like there have been numerous instances of design having a huge impact on success, but many of these instances have been overlooked because people attribute success to other factors. I always assumed Google won because it was b was better technically, but to think that it was due to other reasons is very interesting.
- ma2rten 10y agoJust to clarify, I am not saying Google wasn't better at that time. It's just that subjectively they weren't better for the queries I tried. They might have been a little bit better, but kept improving until a point where other search engines can't keep up anymore.
- scottlocklin 10y agoI think it was due to having a sales model that worked, and a decent design. In ye olden days, Altavista and Yahoo were alternatives. Yahoo faded fast, as it was more of an aol type portal, and the business model (which required a large sales team and heavy analytics to price the ads) wasn't as friendly as Google. Altavista died with DEC. Google continued to print money without hiring a huge sales team.