NEWS: Happy 6th Birthday Google!

GEEK: Happy 6th Birthday Google!

Go to the front page of Google today and you'll discover the familiar logo has been replaced by a more celebratory one as the child genius search engine turns six today.

Whether you use Google or not, it's effect is undeniable. It has altered the way we use the Internet.

Most recently a heated battle has been provoked among online e-mail services such as Hotmail and Yahoo! by the introduction of Google's Gmail service. At the moment it's in private beta testing but if you are a prolific user of blogger.com then you might get the chance to road test the service as Google is offering Gmail accounts to frequent bloggers.

The forthcoming service has also provoked an online war among e-mail services as they vie to offer more storage to compete with Gmail's promised 1 Gigabyte.

You know what would be funny? If the success and technical prowess of Google makes them the equivalent of the Termintor's "SkyNet".

Got Milk? If so, you are a human and must be destroyed!

Google is one of the few companies that dominate their market with a good product.

I've been using Google for years, I query their search engine at least a dozen times a day. But it's been in the last year when a fair part of my business was begotten from Google that I truly started to appreciate them. Kudos and thank you.

Ha! I got my stock quote for GOOG on yahoo..

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=goog

and my YHOO quote on google...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&prev=/search%3Fq%3DYHOO%2Bstock%2Bquote%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8&q=stocks:YHOO+
Where do you want to put your mo-nay?!




[Edited on Sep 08, 2004 by STITCH2]

Google is kind of like windows, in that I can't really remember life pre-google. I know it happened, but my mind either paints out other search engines, or fills in google where dogpile should be.

Anyone remember when AltaVista was poised to be the Yahoo! killer? Now a quick glance at any web servers log... And you have to spill some on the ground for AltaVista...

The way google celebrates its birthday kind of reminds me of Disneyworld... or maybe I am just out to lunch

I still use altavista
No seriously its about as close to google as youll get with a good engine.
Mainly because it has these nifty mp3-audio/video/pictures
find links where you type in the word and it takes you directly to listings of that media format!

It is one of the truely perfect things in existence. The Big Lebowski in at a close second.

a good tip for google (although I don't think it has the same specialised spider methods altavista uses to find media) is to do a search on type "media filetype:x" where media is the name of what you are looking for and filetype is the extension, eg mp3 (without the ".").

This works well if you are trying to find a particular kind of file, I use it to filter my results for instance when I'm trying to find just pdf's.

I ♥ Google. I can't imagine life without it.

I also love that "Google" has become a verb in our society. That shows just how popular it is, similar to Xerox and Kleenex.

[Edited on Sep 08, 2004 by Sorcha]

♥ Google.

I grew up using Dogpile.com, but i became a man and i now know better. Google owns me and every computer I come incontact with. I am one of those assholes that changes every default home address to www.google.com. I think i am doing everyone a favor... who actually uses the yahoo or msn homepages anyway?

but yes.. Happy Birthday google, your card is in the mail

That's also very bad news. It means that they are going to lose eventually their trademark on the term 'google'

I heart my gmail account.

Happy Birthday Google.

You Beautiful Bastard!!!

*cheers for Google*

I have always loved Google, but now I love them more because of Gmail.

Happy B-day Goodle

wow. gmail must be really fucking cool. will trade gmail invites for weird shit

anyone notice how altavista's home page sure looks a lot like google's? aww... but the mp3 search is really koo! thanks for the tip

google almost scares me in its effectiveness

Well, Xerox and Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex) took some defensive measures (like running ads "this is our trademark, not a general term" in TV) to protect their trademarks so they are still valid. So far I haven't seen Google to do anything similar.

Here's more info on the topic:
Wikipedia on genericized trademarks

all hail teh google