What is SURF-acing from the 90s?

In ‘Search of an engine’

We used to scream YAHOO when we got the results
Attempts were made to INFO SEEK
There was some EXCITEment briefly
Late 90s, saw the quiet arrival of the future king whose name even created a verb. If you don’t know who it was, just GOOGLE
For while it was thought that it will be BING on target
Like we have the ‘rags to riches’ stories, these are ‘crawl to searches’

Eye BROW raising battles

Initial pattern was MOSAIC
NET result had a good eSCAPE velocity, until the war broke out with the EXPLORER (of the INTERNET) whose approach of ‘Integration’ was questioned
For a period, AMERICA was ONLINE before turning off-line
There definitely was FIRE in the FOX for quite some time but seems the fuel has run out
Couple of millenia ago, the empire was based out of Rome, now it has shifted to CHROME
The SAFARI was good, but limited by the races run. Hmm, it was not amply powered, only APPLE powered
There are far too less in the OPERA for quite sometime
Not much could be done about the strong hold of the empire, any EDGE could not achieve it till

Now,

There is an OPEN CHAT of a challenge to the behemoth. Interesting to see that is AI powered
Will the BARD roar into a war cry or sing a lullaby?

References

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser#:~:text=Precursors%20to%20the%20web%20browser,spaces)%20and%20later%20renamed%20Nexus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-announces-bard-ai-in-response-to-chatgpt.html