> When google first appeared it was a revolution compared to everything else.
At first it wasn't even because their search was that much better than anyone else's. What made google popular was that it wasn't a massive, messy, ad-filled page of things you didn't care about. Other search engines were bloated "portals" that tried to do everything: email, news, shopping mall, weather, etc
Google had a simple clean interface that loaded instantly on a typical dial up connection and that's really what got people to make it their homepage. Today, google has slowly turned into exactly what it was created to solve. Ad-filled bloated pages that try to be everything by pushing things you don't care about in your face.
At first it wasn't even because their search was that much better than anyone else's. What made google popular was that it wasn't a massive, messy, ad-filled page of things you didn't care about. Other search engines were bloated "portals" that tried to do everything: email, news, shopping mall, weather, etc
Google had a simple clean interface that loaded instantly on a typical dial up connection and that's really what got people to make it their homepage. Today, google has slowly turned into exactly what it was created to solve. Ad-filled bloated pages that try to be everything by pushing things you don't care about in your face.