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Happy 6th Birthday Google!

Submitted by thelost

Edited by Gwendolyn

Go to the front page of Google today and you'll discover the familiar logo has been replaced by a more celebratory one as the child genius search engine turns six today.

Google turns 6 years old today in a birthday celebration that has seen much change over the years. On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control, as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three. The office offered several big advantages, including a washer and dryer and a hot tub.

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.

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Kosomot

kosomot

Pompano Beach, FL
November 2003

SEP 07, 2004 08:05 PM

royaljack

royaljack

Brooklyn, NY
OLD SKOOL

SEP 07, 2004 08:37 PM

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!

AceTracer

acetracer

Hollywood, FL
January 2004

SEP 07, 2004 08:47 PM

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.

Stitchy

Stitchy

Pacifica, CA
May 2004

SEP 07, 2004 09:24 PM

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]

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

SEP 07, 2004 09:45 PM

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.

royaljack

royaljack

Brooklyn, NY
OLD SKOOL

SEP 07, 2004 09:51 PM

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...

RecordandPlay

Recordandplay

Columbus, OH
March 2004

SEP 07, 2004 10:12 PM

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

Yuriel

Yuriel

I'm lost
January 2004

SEP 07, 2004 10:18 PM

royaljack said:
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...



I still use altavista tongue
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!
EL SUICIDO LOCO

Jeff_Fries

Jeff_Fries

Humptulips, WA
September 2003

SEP 07, 2004 11:21 PM

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

thelost

thelost

United Kingdom
June 2004

SEP 08, 2004 02:29 AM

Yuriel said:

royaljack said:
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...



I still use altavista tongue
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!
EL SUICIDO LOCO



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.

_Sarah_

_Sarah_

Kalamazoo, MI
January 2003

SEP 08, 2004 02:45 AM

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]

StarCandy

StarCandy

Australia
April 2004

SEP 08, 2004 03:46 AM

♥ Google.

Gwendolyn

Gwendolyn

SUICIDEGIRL

Indiana, USA

SEP 08, 2004 04:48 AM

royaljack said:
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...



I use Alta Vista for translation purposes only. It got me through four years of Spanish class, so I have a special place in my heart for it.

BigBuddha

BigBuddha

Wethersfield, CT
July 2004

SEP 08, 2004 05:01 AM

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 biggrin

MustiMan

MustiMan

Finland
OLD SKOOL

SEP 08, 2004 07:25 AM

Sorcha said:
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]



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

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