It was probably a very neat hack (I didn&#x27;t use it; my first search engine of choice was Webcrawler in &#x27;95. Then Altavista and Alltheweb (Norway, NTNU! First known as ftpsearch.ntnu.no.). Then omfg, this Google thing really works, &#x27;98 - &quot;why won&#x27;t they let me buy shares in their company&quot;?)<p>But I think Jonathon would agree that it was the obvious next step. There was already the (overly) academical WAIS etc.