Comment on How did Google win the search engine war?
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
i think some part of it is people themselves using word google as synonyme for search. And in general acting as if google was only search engine in existence.
Comment on How did Google win the search engine war?
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
i think some part of it is people themselves using word google as synonyme for search. And in general acting as if google was only search engine in existence.
Uruanna@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But the point is there’s a reason that happened this way. The answer is Yahoo was a news site and had ads, and so did most others or they performed worse. Google worked and had nothing else on the homepage. Using Google as a verb is the result of that.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
But people are still doing it