There is also the fact that there’s only a finite number of pages you can crawl a day. So Google has a built-in data/time advantage. They started from 1999 and

There is also the fact that there’s only a finite number of pages you can crawl a day. So Google has a built-in data/time advantage. They started from 1999 and have 2 decades of data already. Anyone starting now needs to first build up that huge index and that is almost impossible if you start now.