To be fair, 20 years ago Google was used by an educated minority, and now it's the default interface to all human knowledge by every person in the world. It's a

To be fair, 20 years ago Google was used by an educated minority, and now it's the default interface to all human knowledge by every person in the world. It's a completely different product now, with a very different, and vastly larger, customer base. As noted by many other people, Google's complete dominance of all web search for a decade makes the lack of any attempts of competition notable by their absence. If VCs are profit-maximizing, we should be seeing a new Cuil like, every month. Search advertising is a huge market, and is super profitable! Why isn't anyone trying to capture some of it? If Google is so bad now compared to some imagined heyday, then why is Bing also bad, despite the money Microsoft has spent on it?