News Google celebrates fifth birthday

From the Beeb:

The world's most popular site for searching the web, Google, is five years old.

It is now an internet giant, used by millions of people every day in more than 80 languages.

The search engine site moved to its first office, actually a garage, in Menlo Park, California on 7 September 1998.

This move was helped by the $1m in funding it received from investors, family and friends shortly before.

Back then, Google was just four employees, its search system was still being refined and it was handling little more than 10,000 queries per day.

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I remember hearing about Google in early '99.

There wasn't really much to do there, their database was miniscule - so I ignored it and went back to using Altavista and Metacrawler till someone mentioned something about Google.

So I went back to see if it had improved - and of course it had, and now Google is part of my vocabulary... if anyone asks me anything I don't know I either reply "Google for it" or go there myself

 

i like the way something in a garage has evolved into a billion dollar cooporation in just five years....