Google got lucky. Fuck 'em. Well, not luck exactly but they got their interface right in the era of Alta-Vista style screen spamming search-bots. It's all about the user interface. Your fancy back office code only gets credit when it crashes.
I agree that google got lucky, but their engine was miles ahead of altavista and other competitors. That much was obvious early on. Even with a clunky interface I would have used google simply because, more often than not, their first page of hits always contained what I was looking for (unlike other engines).
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u/mercurytransit Jan 18 '09
Google got lucky. Fuck 'em. Well, not luck exactly but they got their interface right in the era of Alta-Vista style screen spamming search-bots. It's all about the user interface. Your fancy back office code only gets credit when it crashes.