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Happy 18th Birthday Google !
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Happy 18th Birthday Google !

ninaprasetyoninaprasetyo Member
edited September 2016 in General

For the people and nation of Internet, Happy 18th Birthday Google !

Thanked by 2MikePT doghouch

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  • meh... $7

    Thanked by 2fazar GCat
  • Happy birthday, Google! :) And thank you for many answers for a difficult questions :)

    Thanked by 1ninaprasetyo
  • Only 18? Seems like yesterday. OK, I admit it. I'm getting old.

    Thanked by 1ninaprasetyo
  • Teenager google

    Thanked by 1ninaprasetyo
  • Congrats Google! You're now of legal age ^_^

    Thanked by 1ninaprasetyo
  • From innocent and idealistic child to all grown up evil overlord in such a short time. So much to be proud of

  • Anyone remember altavista? It's what what we used before google got popular.

  • @rds100 said:
    Anyone remember altavista? It's what what we used before google got popular.

    And atlavista and every other possible misspelling

    Thanked by 2ninaprasetyo vedran
  • Here's the idea that got it started http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

    Something that could be done nowadays on a $10/m server.

    Thanked by 2ninaprasetyo MikePT
  • @rds100 said:
    Anyone remember altavista? It's what what we used before google got popular.

    Never used it, Yahoo came out close then. Yahoo WAS better than google, until the screwed everything up with a million images and laggy content

  • joepie91joepie91 Member, Patron Provider

    <insert joke about being "old enough to drive" and self-driving cars here>

    Thanked by 1ninaprasetyo
  • rds100 said: Anyone remember altavista? It's what what we used before google got popular.

    I remember altavista and lycos, but I used mostly yahoo. I also remember astalavista ;-) (for the olders a famous keygen search engine! Writing this and opened a new tab to see if it is still existing, and it is!

    On Google's birthday, in the beginning I was happy seeing a new player to entering the game and changing the rules, but now even if I use it as all of us continously, I do not like the role and the influence having to the net... So much power in their hands, no real control from anybody outside the company...

  • ricardoricardo Member
    edited September 2016

    Yeah, it'd be nice if there was something comparable to Google, because as you say, the amount of power is often underestimated.

    cuil.com was the last attempt, and that failed spectacularly.

    Gigablast is quite a good open source thing to get to grips with the challenges on the few billions of pages scale.

    Thanked by 2ninaprasetyo default
  • I stopped using Google services. Too much power in one private company. The only service I still keep using from Google is some email forwarding from an old offer that included free domain email accounts.

    From simple search engine to paid advertising, from WebRTC promotion to RTMPS destruction, from free email to psychological profiles with search cookies and social networking... I can't really wish them happy birthday from the bottom of my heart.

    Thanked by 2ricardo sercio
  • @joepie91 said:
    <insert joke about being "old enough to drive" and self-driving cars here>

    You have to be 18 to drive there? All you get at 1 here is the ability to get drunk and sign your life away XD. Start driving at 15/16. Sex at 16. Spose they are legal for porn, but who wants to see Google naked?
    Oh and the PITA of being legally obliged to vote in a system that does nothing anyway

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