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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
It's the public's fault that Google got this big to begin with.  I was happily using WebCrawler and Yahoo's search engines back in the day before Google got shoved onto everyone's faces. It's not like you're going to willingly pay to use a search engine, so they have to find another way to make money, and well, "invading" your privacy as some people see it, is just the thing that works. |
I think I was the last webcrawler user. I only started using Google very late in college, mostly because it gave better results and you could turn safe browsing off if you wanted to.
Thing was, Google offered (and still does offer in a lot of cases) the best services out there. That's why people started using it. It beat Webcrawler and Lycos hands down, and MSN/Bing never stood a chance. MSN sort of shot itself in the foot with those commercials about Censor Butterfly, though.