There were sites like this that had several search engines side by side in frames so you could compare the results returned from all of them at once.
Will be really interesting to see how all of this plays out.
It grinds my gears a little bit when people pretend that Google came out of nowhere and invented a new paradigm for accessing information and making money by selling ads there.
It was a well recognized problem they solved with Page rank!
There were sites like this that had several search engines side by side in frames so you could compare the results returned from all of them at once.
Will be really interesting to see how all of this plays out.