As probably everybody knows, Google created a real monopoly on the internet search. Many people don’t even know about other search engines. To a certain degree, the word “Google” means to search the internet. I think most of us have heard the phrase “Google it”.

But as we know, nothing is forever, and it looks like that monopoly may end soon. But before I dive deeper into what’s changing, let's see the history of how people find information on the internet, how Google took its place, and what problems it had to face.

History

A long time ago, before any search engine existed, when you needed to find specific information on the internet, you had to know the website that