No smarts, no bubble, no signals decided by over fitting to a biased engineer preference.
It's easy to forget that the goal of Google isn't to provide a useful search engine (at least not anymore), but the search engine is a by product of them wanting to show ads.
The search engine and the ads are tightly coupled. A better search engine means it can predict with more accuracy what you are looking for and can serve you an even more targeted ad that increases the chance you'll click.
Or they'll continue to use it out of sheer inertia. Google is paying Apple $15 billion to keep its place as iOS default search engine.
IE6 didn't die overnight when Firefox arrived.
Just like how iPad dethroned Windows PCs for average home user but not Mac because Windows had the monopoly and then an innovation destroyed MS in this space and not a competitor.
I don't think Google dethrones Yahoo and AltaVista scenario will occur again.
is this true? in the US, perhaps? because in south america it couldn't me more far away from truth - didn't happen at all
Example: `rust slow compilation site:stackoverflow.com`
Or you can put in two ID's and have it find sources that both parties trust.