1998-2000 Google

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    What do you thought of Google when it is just starting?
     
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  2. Zapita

    Zapita Active Member

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    no ads, clean interface, GREAT! i don't have to go through yahoo to use it

    that was my first thought :)
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    When I first saw it, I was like - this is stupid, its just a search box. Why would anyone use it LOL
     
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    I liked it better back then. Providing relevant content was their #1 priority, not selling ad space.
     
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    Canadianbacon Well-Known Member

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    i thought it looked "cheap" and never understood why so many people used it'
     
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    I heard it from someone else and get use to it by the simple and clean search engine. VERY FAST.
     
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    It was a cool secret I shared with everybody.
     
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    ly2 Notable Member

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    i remember the first time i really noticed it, i saw their logo on AOL.
    thats when i was like woah, these guys are for real
     
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  9. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Ditto... :)
     
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    Calbert Well-Known Member

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    Yeh, me too. I thought it lacked everything.

    It wanted to be Yahoo! but lazier....
     
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    mustangsally Well-Known Member

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    I remember before google the king was metacrawler.com
     
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    I remember finally being able to find what I was looking for on microsoft.com
     
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    haha - nice find!!!

    for me : quick & simple
     
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    Serg Well-Known Member

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    I thought it was very cool as it was nice and simple...
     
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    I was underwhelmed by it. I was liking altavista.com and then dogpile.com. I liked altavista because it would index sites right away and had good relavence. I like dogpile because it would return result sets from 10 or more differenct search engines at once. I could quickly scroll through a lot of result sets, each with different criteria.

    Google had an almost unnatural buzz about it but it of course grew to live up to the buzz.
     
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    Never heard of it until about 2 years ago when I heard someone mention it on TV as a way to search for stuff on the Internet. Probably how most of the world's population learned of it.
     
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    The first time I used google I wonder where do they get their profit w/o any adds?:)
     
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    I started using it in 2001.When i first saw i thought it would die in 1-2 years....:-/
     
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    LOL That's funny.

    I always liked Google's interface, and the first thing I noticed was how fast and relevant the searches were.
     
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