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> The Google search comparisons in the article are strange. Google did not win the search engine war because it had integrated ads Extremely strange. Google w
by dpark 9y ago
> The Google search comparisons in the article are strange. Google did not win the search engine war because it had integrated ads
Extremely strange. Google won because search was better. Users flocked there because it actually worked. The fact that it had integrated ads was incidental. Integrated ads helped with funding obviously, but users don't care about that. (To the extent that they do, they actively don't want it.)
- danaliv 9y agoThis is my recollection as well. Google was amazing because the results were so astonishingly better than anything else before it. As for ads, I don't recall Google even having ads at all to begin with. And when they did start including advertising, everyone was already getting annoyed with web ads, and Google had somehow found a way to do ads "right." (Unrelated: I would just like to say that the subheading "Portal Combat" is worth the salary of whoever wrote it.)