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Why I switched to google. A) it was fast, it loaded fast. B) it was not filled with ads and pop ups. Only one of those is still true.

• rkudeshi 15y ago
  I suspect quality results also played an outsized factor in most people's switching, even if they don't admit it. Easy test: are you using Bing now? (with their new clean results pages)
  • dm8 15y ago
    Its not that Google's page is completely cluttered now. I remember using web portals at that time to search the web and then Google. The difference was day and night. Portals were that bad.
    • Dove 15y ago
      I was amazed -- even at the time -- that anyone thought this (http://web.archive.org/web/20000229120749/http://www.altavista.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20000229120749/http://www.altavis...) was a good idea. I'm really glad UX thinking has progressed.
  • wazoox 15y ago
    Oh yes. I remember back in early 1998 I was using Copernic to aggregate and filter results from a whole bunch of search engines, because individually their results where so poor and irrelevant. Then I discovered http://google.stanford.edu http://google.stanford.edu and never looked back.
    • cglace 14y ago
      Same here except I used dogpile.com