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Those books aren't really mentioning Google Search as an example, right? It didn't have first-mover advantage.

• flukus 10y ago
  It kind of did, AFAIK it was the first functional search engine. Everything else at the time was pretty terrible.
  • euyyn 10y ago
    Yeah, no true Scotsman ends up losing first-mover advantage.
    • flukus 10y ago
      It's not no true scotsman though. Google search was very different to what came before it. The only similarity was the UI.
      • euyyn 10y ago
        That's nonsense. The only two differentiators were the minimalistic UI (at a time when load speed of a web page was noticeable) and the better quality of the results. There were a bunch search engines already, all of them with a search box where you typed stuff and got a list of results.