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Google Turns 10
Ian Lamont writes "It was on September 7, 1998 that Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc., aiming to provide a better search engine. You can see what it looked like here. Google had a relatively good search engine technology that succeeded in burying many late 1990s competitors, and it eventually developed a successful advertising model and pledged to operate on a 'don't be evil' philosophy. The company now has nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value, and has been acquiring or developing a host of groundbreaking technologies. When did you start using its search engine? Is the world a better place because of Google?"
Google AND the Big Lebowski make the scene in that fateful year. Coincidence? Hmm.....
I don't know about Google, but the world is definitely a better place because of the Dude.
Careful What You Wish For....
Of all the search engines, Google was the best name to use as a verb.
"All this time I thought 'Googling yourself' was the other thing."
-- Marge Simpson
I don't know, well before 2002. I'm sure they know the exact date!
todo - The developer's equivalent of confession: "Forgive me Father, for I have sinned..."
Google Beta Turns 15
All the really good evil is coded and compiled deep inside the top-secret Google data centers, surrounded by moats filled with sharks with friggin' laser beams on their heads.
Conspiracy theories aside, the data centers are a major innovation, and an area where Google has set standards for its competitors to chase. Google's massively scalable infrastructure is a big part of what has set it apart.
Google? I still visit the Mother Gopher for all my informational needs!
Nah, it's easy to remember how bad search was before Google. Someone has set up a very handy page to remind everyone.
There's a second page?!
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I consider not ever getting email from Daniel Brandt to be one of Gmail's most compelling features.
Same here.
One day, when Yahoo was still king, I was having bad luck finding results. I had tried all the search engines I knew about.. Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc.
Finally I asked Jeeves for the "best web search" and he recommended Google. Well done, Jeeves!
You are bang on...I started using Google back in 1999 or 2000 mainly to look for porn *no kidding*.
At the time I lived in a country where the ISPs had firewalls that restricted access to "indecent and inappropriate content". The up side was that most filtering was done off URLs, so as long as I found new/less frequented websites I was ahead of the game.
I still remember the feeling of having won a treasure hunt every time I found an unrestricted website. Ah! Those were the days....these young whippersnappers have it good these days with p2p and all!
Is that 10, base 2? Come on, folks. Let your innner geek out. It should read:
Google Turns 0x0A
Have gnu, will travel.
And I must admit its caught on...
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Are you sure? You mean your page wasn't found in the results of:
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Anonymous+Coward
That means Google will hit puberty soon.
What will this mean for "Don't be evil"?
I want to try Film Gimp aka CinePaint. But I need a book or something to learn it and I haven't found one. That or someone to show me how to use it.
Falcon
Should there be a Law?
Also, it's an anagram of 'Go Ogle', which, considering what The Internet Is For, is appropriate...