Google Turns 5

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 7, 2003 @02:42AM from the make-a-wish dept.

Gantic writes "The BBC has an article on Google's 5th birthday. The popular search engine now handles over 200 million queries a day and the word "Google" is now a noun, adjective and verb. Lets see how long the most popular search engine in the world can last, here's to another 5 years and more Google!"

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Adjective? by Phantasmo · 2003-09-07 02:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Well, that's just about the Google-ist thing I've ever heard!

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Hello, editors??! by henriksh · 2003-09-07 02:46 · Score: 4, Funny

What about a fscking link??

Where can I find this Google company?
1. Re:Hello, editors??! by presroi · 2003-09-07 03:13 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Where can I find this Google company?
  
  Hmm, indeed. Maybe "google" was misspelled. My favourite search engine was unable to find it.
  Sorry, no results were found containing "google" [some minor things omitted] SEARCH TIPS 1) Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly? 2) Try using synonyms. Maybe the site you're looking for uses slightly different words, like "film" instead of "movie". 3) Make your search more general. For example, instead of using specific product names, try using the generic product category. For more tips and answers to frequently asked questions, check out MSN Search Help
  (PS: I know, I did this weeks ago with overture and google)
2. Re:Hello, editors??! by SlashSim · 2003-09-07 04:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I put up a mirror in case they get slashdotted:
  http://puddle.dyndns.org/google.htm
  
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Hah! by BJH · 2003-09-07 02:48 · Score: 3, Funny

At last, my sig is relevant to a story!

Let's see, today's total is:

Results 1 - 10 of about 344,000,000. Search took 0.10 seconds.

Not bad.
Re:Happy Birthday! by Zalgon+26+McGee · 2003-09-07 02:54 · Score: 4, Funny

That song is protected by copyright. Please send your royalty cheque to the RIAA.

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Google by ReTay · 2003-09-07 03:06 · Score: 4, Funny

A boss at work has observed that if WW III were to hit and Google survived they would probibly worship the thing. heh
Re:More Google ... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-07 03:14 · Score: 5, Funny

jeeze, all this censorship stuff and chilling effects of DMCA..... and now a calculator.

I guess that makes google cold AND calculating.
Just in case... by evil-osm · 2003-09-07 03:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Here is the cache for it

;)

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Re:In case it get's slashdotted by ProfessionalCookie · 2003-09-07 03:28 · Score: 4, Funny

In case that gets here's Google's cached verson.

My favorite line is:Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
Long Life... by willll · 2003-09-07 05:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Lets hope that they can live to be a googol (10^100)