D is dead (was: Dicebot on leaving D: It is anarchy driven development in all its glory.)

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

> The first search engines were created in 1993, google came 
> along in 1998 after at least two dozen others in that list, and 
> didn't make a profit till 2001. Some of those early competitors 
> were giant "billion dollar global companies," yet it's google 
> that dominates the web search engine market today.
>
> Why is that?

Their original page-rank algorithm. Basically, they found an 
efficient way of emulating random clicks to all outgoing links 
from a page and thus got better search result rankings.

It was a matter of timing.