Remember Google?

I've just started using Steem, and love the look and feel of it. It feels....familiar. Like an old friend, and I've just put my finger on why.

Do you remember google when it first arrived? I do. I found it by accident while I was wading through the nightmare of flashing images and adverts that was Yahoo at the time.

Google was a breath of fresh air. It was uncluttered and simple to use. Quite unlike the behemoth of information gathering and tailoring that it has become.
Yes, it still tries to be uncluttered. But the adverts are now there. They may not be flashing. But they're there.

It's no longer the simple, trusted, user friendly search engine. It's now just the goto search engine.

I hope Steem keeps its uncluttered advertisement free look and feel. I hope it grows organically, through user intervention, and not through buy-outs or takeovers.

I have a feeling the Blockchain market is going to become saturated, and the only way for some to survive will be to merge together and create bigger stronger products to take on the bigger boys.

I just hope that money doesn't spoil the coin's power.

A.