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Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.
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I would argue against this lack of competitors you mentioned. We were using AskJeeves, Webcrawler, yahoo, msn, aol, Alta Vista, Lycos, Excite, Hotbot and a myriad of local service providers' homepages.
Google came much later than all of those, but it was better. How? I don't know, I was just a kid that got better results from Google than any of those other places.
Just because Google DESTROYED the competition before you got there doesn't mean that there wasn't any.
At the time, they gave better results and the clean and simple design got right to it without all of the BANNER! BANNER! HONK!HONK! of the competitors.
They had ads, but they were just text links that said they were ads and weren't playing games with rankings based on who bribed them.