google search - some claim The Algorithm didn't make that much difference, and mostly made for a cool story.
Fast, uncluttered, no pay-for-rank
It's easy to forget there were lots of search engines before google. It was a boring "done" field
Fast, uncluttered, no pay-for-rank
It's easy to forget there were lots of search engines before google. It was a boring "done" field
How old are you? The algorithm made a difference :)
Why would people use google? It was cool and new, had a great story... and made all tradeoffs in favour of letting you get on with searching, without a whole lot of portal BS/spam, fitting OP's criterion.
Google's biggest advantage today is speed - esp google suggest is unbelievably fast. It required a huge investment and knowhow that its less profitable competitors just can't match.
But the "some" was one of my PhD supervisors, who didn't mind a bit of thought-provoking... unlike today's HN, sad to see.
Even if the algorithm wasn't all that good to start with, it was damn fast, and clean, and no ads, so... you didn't mind refining a search a few times, because there were no annoying ads to slow things down.