8.2 Google's Preeminence
When the Web was younger, the search engine field was all but wide
open. There were lots of major search engines, including: AltaVista,
Excite, HotBot, and Webcrawler. This proliferation of search engines
had both its advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage was that
you had to make sure you had submitted to several different places.
One advantage was that you had several inflows of search engine
spawned trafffic.
As the number of search engines dwindle, Google's
index (and influence) is growing. You don't have to
worry so much about submitting to different places, but you have to
be aware of Google at all times.
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