Remembering stuff like Yahoo! And Ask Jeeves, I wonder how Google came to be the company that became ubiquitous for and basically interchangeable with “online search”.

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    Just a few weeks ago I saw a photo of an article circa 1995 where Sergey brin says “other search engines care about monetization, we care about quality” or something like that

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      Or was it something like “you can’t give a good search experience if your focus is selling ads”?