Google Turns 5

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!"

Comments

Re:Hello, editors??!

[puppet10]

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.