JohnRoy - 11:57 pm on Jul 17, 2012 (gmt 0)

>> this is not something that Google developed inhouse.

So what? most of their stuff was not developed in house.

>> Google's success compared to other search engines was really a marketing triumph based on the UI. The search results were not that different to other engines, what made G stand out was the clean user interface...

Agree to a point that their UI was better than others. But its the search RESULTS that matters to the searcher.