The main part tho was that Googles searches were much better than AskJeeves and Altavista. Their search algo was far superior. People found what they were looking for.
By that reckoning [url =http://www.persiankitty.com/]this[/url] should have taken over the world!!

If there was any point to what I wrote I guess it would be that the analogy breaks at some point. We might have to think for ourselves.
(Crap! Where's that anti-spyware!?!?!!?!!)
(Edit: Only 628 threats detected, I guess it was soft porn then.)
You know, I cant remember the actual point I switched to google from AltaVista, despite having convinced myself that I never would. Funny, no matter how entrenched we think we are, we are liableto change in a heartbeat. Bitcoin core could learn that lesson.
I removed the link

- if people wish to discover how we found porn in 1994 then they can type it themselves... ( and learn how we got rid of spyware too!)
Sorry for your spyware troubles...

I guess I'm more of a whore. I switched after the first try. It was sooo much better. I tried switching back after Google became a verb, but it only lasted 20 seconds.