This makes me miss the early 2000s when you could search anything and end up discovering new websites. Sure, some of them were dubious, but this is what made the Internet fun back then! It made me feel like I was a pioneer sailing across the ocean of search results to discover a new world of unique content. These days, the same websites will come up depending on your search.
- Search for news: CNN, Cnet, Huffington Post, and other big news sites.
- Search for any consumer good: Amazon and Ebay.
- Search a question: Yahoo Answers
- Search for restaurants: Wikipedia and Yelp.
- Search for people: Wikipedia.
- Search for places: Wikipedia.
- Search for schematics on a Marx Generator: Wikipedia and Instructables.
But you know what? They are just giving common people what they want. Regular people do not care about small websites or small businesses, as long as they can get "great deals" on a well known website that everyone trusts, then everything is right in their world. People are just too apprehensive about clicking on anything that is not a well known website these days because they just assume everything is a "virus".