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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. Re:200,000 Million? by petabyte · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As the Anonymous Coward said quite well, the defintion of a billion is different in the US than in the UK (Just a guess but the _British_ Broadcasting Company is probably somewhere in the UK).

    As far as I know, 200,000 Million is the US definition of 2 Billion while the UK definition would be more 200,000,000 Million.

    Of course the issue is probably mute as in the time I've written this Google has probably caught up.