Google's World Wide Web Wars
 

We've all grown up on the Internet and have been used to Google being a big part of that experience. Many of us remember Google as the rebellious startup, gradually becoming the dominate force in the search world, but what has Google really become in its 14 year existence? The argument will rumble on, but Google's claim to be just another search engine is starting to seem increasingly unconvincing. Fourteen years after its winningly spare and restrained home page entered our lives, its dominance of search is close to total.

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