It’s been 7 years already Google came on the scene of searches. How time flies, it seems like only yesterday when I started using Google but now Google is turning 7 years old today. What a humble start Google had, from beginning as a search for geeks and nerds to being the search for all things to all people. Instead of getting a present they are giving us a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.

But search remains our heart and soul, so I’m especially pleased by this latest expansion of our index, which makes Google more than 3 times larger than any other search engine. See for yourself how effective the new Google search index can be. Come up with a search query that’s special to you (your name, your elementary school, and your favorite animal, for example) – a combination of words that is likely to exist on just a few web pages out of the billions we’ve indexed, a few needles scattered in the Internet’s endless haystack. Ready?

I can say I do all my searches with Google, about 15-20 searches a day. Only on occasion do I use Yahoo or MSN, mainly to see how many pages are index there. Keep improving the searches to keep it relevant and we’ll keep using it.

Happy Birthday Google. So is your real birthday really on September 7, 1998?

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