I guess for me (back in 2001) adopting Google as primary (and now sole sole) search engine was natural.
As Google was:
1) "Fast" as compared the yahoo, Excite, AltaVista then
2) "Simple", thus making sure i have my intended contents to focus upon rather then a lot of things which were irrelevant at that particular instance of time.
3) "Light", thus took less time in downloading. and back then in my country bandwidth was a major problem.
4) "Relevant" in more searches then not.
Now Google is indispensable because it's still faster, simpler etc and now it has loads of cool new services especially Gmail.
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I guess for me (back in 2001) adopting Google as primary (and now sole sole) search engine was natural.
As Google was:
1) "Fast" as compared the yahoo, Excite, AltaVista then
2) "Simple", thus making sure i have my intended contents to focus upon rather then a lot of things which were irrelevant at that particular instance of time.
3) "Light", thus took less time in downloading. and back then in my country bandwidth was a major problem.
4) "Relevant" in more searches then not.
Now Google is indispensable because it's still faster, simpler etc and now it has loads of cool new services especially Gmail.