Comment by kreeben

If you are flabbergasted by the fact Yahoo, and everyone else for that matter, thought it absolutely impossible to disrupt Google (except for perhaps a handful of hubris-riddled people at MS), please remember the general sentiment HN used to have towards Google who according to us, at that time, could do no wrong. They were infallible. They were the brightest people in the world. They were The Good Guy (TM). They were so good that when they launched a browser later that year, no one blinked before installing it. You didn't blink. I didn't blink. We just drank the cool aid and clicked "install".