Compared to the "search engines " in the early 00's. The Google search engine was at least 1000 times better. My job at the time was to solve problems that users had using an ISP. GOOGLE was in all ways really so much better . Especially the first few results were almost always what you were hoping to find. I can remember my co workers teasing me about using Google. Then within days everyone was using Google.
A typical end user at the time had a web browser with "toolbars " The toolbars conflicted with the other toolbars, conflicted with the computers software ( operating system) and the security software. This resulted in a computer that took up to 20 minutes to turn on ( boot up) and very sluggish performance ( 100% cpu utilization for minutes).