alt Hacker NewsI kinda disagree because while most search engines failed and Google succeeded, they did not succeed by simply being a better search engine.
This is only further demonstrated by their excellent leverage of Gemini. Google continues to succeed at being Google.
They absolutely succeeded because they had a better search engine. Without a doubt. I imagine there’s more than a few folks around here who used shit like askjeeves, altavista, et. al. Google was heads and shoulders better than those, and continued to get better over time.
No, I’m no Google fan, but it’s revisionist history to say they didn’t have the best search engine.