Salon: Why Google Got it Right – 10 Years Ago

The archives of Salon.com turns up this wonderfully prescient article about why underdog startup Google was going to win big.

http://archive.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/12/21straight.html

“There’s something ultimately dumb about these all-things-to-all-people sites in a medium whose greatest strength is the ability to be specific things to specific people. If the portals can’t even build a better search engine, I am not betting on their ability to control an industry as fast-moving, innovative and metamorphic as the Internet — next year or any year.”