More than a decade ago, they gave you that magical and free text-box which you till date use to have a sense of direction on the web. They then decide that since most are doing X, lets give them X ourselves, or lets make X better. And slowly that became a large number of X-es, in amounts similar to its name. While they couldn’t conquer everything and have had to retreat from a few fronts, they have indeed conquered a majority, a comfortable majority. A slice big enough to crunch most of what you do in your day, right from your first few keystrokes till your last few keypunches.
There have always been many others in its ranks, some once even better than it and some existing more years than it has. What it didn’t initiate first, was evened by them aping what it did.
Whichever would be the champion in the end, if there always has to be; know that you would have been knocked out of the web by then. To being a mere user, yet again.
10¹°° is large, and sparkling like that diamond under bruting thus far, it does make you feel uneasy a few times in a year.
