Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.
Google was okay until 2014/2015. Soon enough they even nerfed their reverse image search, making Yandex the undisputable king for both images and text results.
Search was such a crapshoot prior to Google, you’d have to try two or three search engines which all had very mixed results. Often it was easier to just ask someone a question on a forum if you had a tech problem. Early Google was a different beast, nothing else was as fast and direct for results.
Google was okay until 2014/2015. Soon enough they even nerfed their reverse image search, making Yandex the undisputable king for both images and text results.