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To me, when it arrived Google was attractive because it had a simple, clean home page. Big search field, the work "Google" and not much else. At the time the ot
by spfzero 4y ago
To me, when it arrived Google was attractive because it had a simple, clean home page. Big search field, the work "Google" and not much else. At the time the other search engines plastered the home page with ads. Also at the time, I didn't perceive Google's search as vastly superior, though it may have been.
The clean interface and lack of home page clutter was good enough to win me over. It's interesting that for all of these years they have kept the home page relatively clear (Or so I imagine, been DDG exclusively for about 8 years now).
- mrkramer 4y agoOthers were Web Portals that had search, Google was only search engine but ironically enough as they grew larger and more ambitious they became Web Portal(the concept that they once feared). But I admit Google's UI is still nice and clean.
- bitwize 4y agoBack in 1998, Google was indeed the upstart: a limited index compared to the giant of the time, AltaVista. But they ran Linux. That was Slashdot-worthy!