Google took over search when Alta Vista was a thing. Their search has improved gradually over the years to the point where it "understands" the web and the ques

Google took over search when Alta Vista was a thing. Their search has improved gradually over the years to the point where it "understands" the web and the questions people are asking way better than any simple crawler/index could. It's not perfect but if Google turned off the ML, I expect I'd miss it.