Well how else were you to find a site in the days before Google search?
There was Alta-Vista. Worked way better than Yahoo. There were WebCrawler and Lycos. Likewise.
When Google first showed up, I was skeptical. Google didn't have a fancy search language like Alta-Vista. But, somehow, its results were so superior that it didn't need one. It took a while for that to sink in, especially given Google's at the time much smaller database. But sink in, it did!