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Google Turns 5

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. a correction by madcoder47 · · Score: 4, Informative

    the article states 200 million queries a day, not 200,000 million (200 billion) queries as the slashdot post says.

  2. Google Fan Boys by digitaltraveller · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think google's great, but just to counter the usual fan boy posts here is a link to some people who don't think so:google-watch

  3. More Google ... by crumbz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google has added a calculator function to it's primary search page. Simply type in 4*6 or (9+13)/7 into the search box and out pops the answer. Unit conversions (i.e. "how many inches in a lightyear") are performed as well. And if that wasn't enough, simply type in "the answer to life, the universe and everything" for a calculation that takes significantly less time than seven and a half million years. A nice plug for Google's computing power being equivalent to Deep Thought of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

  4. Then Don't Forget by Kozz · · Score: 4, Informative

    google-watch-watch

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  5. Re:Hello, editors??! by puppet10 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a hack of the URL.

    Original posts URL:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=msn&num=-1&btnG=Google+Search

    A URL returned from a query from the google homepage:

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=msn&btnG=Google+Search

    note the num=-1 in the original post URL.

    One thing I'm not sure of is why new searches in the search box from the original URL return a num=0 instead of whatever number you have set as the number of results you wish to see on google, but it seems like a small bug because of the original badly formed url given to it.

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  6. Re:Hello, editors??! by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Funny, it works for me. Maybe if you didn't have "&num=-1" in the URL string, it would work for you too.

  7. another correction by RobotWisdom · · Score: 3, Informative

    The 'prenatal' Google was already being discussed on netnews in March 1998. [more history]

  8. Google toolbar by myov · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their new toolbar is great (when I'm stuck on IE). Forms autofill, popup blocking, and even the ability to vote a site up or down. Hmm... site to vote down... of course, sco.com!

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