I started using Google in 2001, after seeing it on the screen of another computer in an Internet Cafe. I was trying to search something, and Altavista was returning shit filled with all kinds of commercials.
Opened Google, typed my search query in that lovely text input, hit Enter, and WOW, the first 10 results were all relevant. And no commercials. I was so impressed that I instantly switched.
Even when they added commercials, they were marked as such, while being clean and non-intrusive (well, that changed in the meantime -- I find their search page a little cluttered with commercials nowadays).
I started using Google in 2001, after seeing it on the screen of another computer in an Internet Cafe. I was trying to search something, and Altavista was returning shit filled with all kinds of commercials.
Opened Google, typed my search query in that lovely text input, hit Enter, and WOW, the first 10 results were all relevant. And no commercials. I was so impressed that I instantly switched.
Even when they added commercials, they were marked as such, while being clean and non-intrusive (well, that changed in the meantime -- I find their search page a little cluttered with commercials nowadays).