> I don't remember switching from Dogpile to Google and going 'oh my god! who are these Google people? They solved search. I absolutely do. Before google it wa

> I don't remember switching from Dogpile to Google and going 'oh my god! who are these Google people? They solved search. I absolutely do. Before google it was mostly dumb link aggregating ; I remember going pages and pages in altavista and lycos and using "search helpers" like Copernic and going through various shady website link lists until google came ; I never looked back because I mostly never had to look beyond the first page to find what I was looking for with google.