Where would we be without Google??

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Have you ever thought of that? It crossed my mind today, then I thought maybe we would all be chasing rankings for Altavista(remember them?) or Yahoo, or maybe Microsoft.
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  • Profile picture of the author michael26a
    I think if Google wasn't around, we'd all be trying to rank well on Bing and Yahoo. I'm so glad this isn't the case lol
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  • Profile picture of the author therealfactoid
    or more than likely some other weird startup with an odd name would fill the power vacuum
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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    Yes, it is scary how much we rely on Google for just about everything.
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    • Profile picture of the author FutureMilyonair
      I agree, what if for some reason it just shut down, I mean it's highly unlikely. But there would be a ton of people/businesses out of money, jobs, and a lot of other things.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Well, I went to gopher(or was it archie or veronica? I forget). THEN I went to yahoo, then altavista, now google. If worse comes to worse, I have a few hundred million links I can search through. To some degree, I could search through it pretty well in less than 2 minutes. Not nearly as fast as google, but more thoroughly.

    Steve
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  • I don't even like to OPEN Bing - much less use it if I don't have to...

    Talk about a wild goose chase...

    Where did Netscape go after the MSN fight?- they had a nice little campus - built a lite-rail spur right to the front door and everything...

    Altavista...hadn't heard that name in awhile...remember ask jeeves? Telnet BBS?...silly -
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  • I'll bet SHOCKWAVE FLASH could do without them...

    When the Hades is that going to be fixed?

    chrome is wearing out their welcome

    Every time I look for a patch, all I find is complaints there isn't one -
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  • Profile picture of the author mullah86
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      We'd probably have much better user interfaces and we'd be "Yahooing it"...
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