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Re:Google’s top search result is Google by IncRnd on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:46AM (#23976350)
> People didn't pick Google because it was hard to switch, they converged on Google because the product was that good

That's not how I remember things from that time. I started to use Google, because it was faster than dogpile and the other oddly named search engines.

It wasn't a quality reason. There was the expectation that a search for information would take longer than a single click, so a little digging wasn't an issue.

Re:Google’s top search result is Google by hcurtiss on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @11:23AM (#23976724)
My experience was that the quality of the search results were much better.
Re:Google’s top search result is Google by IncRnd on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:48PM (#23990251)
I experienced that as well, but the reason we used Google at that time was the speed that was sorely lacking is all other offeri we used.