Google It.

The whole Google story is really amazing when you go back to where it all started. Isn't it amazing that Google is now used as a verb?

Google pretty much saved the internet from a huge random mess that no one would be able to navigate without "search." Even today there is a genius behind the fact that it's all about networking and who you link up with. As in page links anyway. And again, it was all thought up by two measly college students.

Yahoo! and Excite were fairly similar, but what they lacked, Google had; with simplicity at the top of the list. Just comparing home pages shows you the major difference. They also didn't have the factor that someone passed them up for around a million back when they were first starting and today are worth billions! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.