Unlike Xerox, Google wasn't the first company to
invent their product, not by a long shot. Lycos
released their search engine in 1993. Yahoo! came
out in 1994. AltaVista began serving results in
1995. Google did not come out until years later, in
1998. Though a few years difference may not
seem like much, this is a major head start in the
fast moving world of tech. So how did Google do
it? How did they overtake their competitors who
had such huge leads in time and money? Maybe
one good idea made all the difference.