Google's 10th Birthday

I remember I used to use Alta Vista all the time and my told me to try this new search site when I was over at his house one day. Little did I know that everything else would soon be left in the dust.

I asked a friend the same question and he said he thinks it's because they decided to do one thing and do it well - searches.  Most other search engines seemed to want to be a portal or home page, they tried to cram in news and human interest stories and lots of ads on the front page.
At least he said that's why he liked Google originally, he didn't have to wait for other stuff to load, he just pulled it up and typed what he wanted in the big box in the center. 
I guess that makes sense, although I am not sure it's the reason, just hypothosis from a friend who is smarter than myself.

Which unfortunately means on Yahoo's search engine my website comes up as the third result and on Google I can't find myself on the first several pages