Actually, the founders of Google initially wanted to sell their product to Yahoo, Alta Vista, Ask.com, et all. Nobody really believed their algorithm would sig

Actually, the founders of Google initially wanted to sell their product to Yahoo, Alta Vista, Ask.com, et all. Nobody really believed their algorithm would significantly better. They were convinced state of the art was all there was and could ever be. So they founded Google, and pretty much owned their stagnant competitors. There's a reason Ask.com spends good money marketing itself among rednecks with a NASCAR and Google doesn't.