blonde poker forum

Google is 15 years old.  That's pretty much the same length of time I've been working in online marketing, and that makes me feel old.

For the 'kids', here's what Google looked like back in 1998:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?safe=off&q=google+in+1998

I remember the first day I ever heard of google - Chris Evans was raving about it on his BBC Breakfast Show. "Searches are so quick" sort of thing.

Back then, with most of us on dial up, a routine search could take several minutes before the page appeared.

Note the other Search Engines listed at the foot of the page - what memories.

AltaVista Excite HotBot Infoseek Lycos Deja Yahoo! Amazon Open Directory eGroups

I ought to count how many times per day I use google - it may be hundreds. All for free.

Love it.

Ooh, think I am supposed to do this, so I can be cool.....

>google

#lovethegoogle

When I first started using the internet I seem to remember yahoo search engine and it absolutely doing my head in. I think the beauty of google is it can seem a very clean simple page...

Very much part of the attraction to me, that big white blank space, with almost no distractions, flashing banners or suchlike.

Clean, functional, fit for purpose. 

Yep, Google have made alot from not alot if you get what I mean, absolutely genius.

Watch out for evasive answers and long moody silences in the coming months.

There's nothing worse than an adolescent search engine.

I find it amazing that yahoo is still around.  Who uses it?!

Even for email, Gmail is such a smooth and slick operation.

Well, you'd think so......but Wiki says.....


According to comScore, Yahoo during July 2013 surpassed Google on the number of United States visitors to its Web sites for the first time since May 2011, set at 196 million United States visitors, having increased by 21 percent in a year.

Also....


According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo websites every month.Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."

Quite surprising, if true, but it just shows, each to their own.

Is Google banned in China? Might explain it if so

Mostly so, yes. They had a bit of a stand-off as I recall.

In Google's eyes they are not doing this for free.  Each time you use a google product they are building their profile on you which gives them considerable marketing value which has translated to making them one of the most powerful companies in the world.

15 years ago it was hard to imagine any company could afford to develop google maps/street view/earth to the extent they have.  It would be interesting to find our how much that project cost them.

I use Bing a fair bit.

Has anyone actually been using google for 15 years? I have, I just started secondary school 15 years ago (makes me wonder where that time went) and I remember a whiteboard at the front of the IT class having search engines written on it permanently.

I remember those being Altavista, yahoo, google, ask and possibly a couple of others. I'm struggling to remember if there was a default home search engine assigned to those ancient computers though.

Ha have the same memories.

Think before Bing, Microsoft used the MSN name for search? 

Remember that when we first got a PC and used AOL, and then Freeserve. Both 'piggy backed' and on searches it was AOL Search powered by XYZ.

Love Google, my default search engine of choice

Think Yahoo is popular in Asia also a news source for many.  They also had a tie in with BT for a while in this country only ending this year...

Yes, I'm familiar with that line, but it does not trouble me at all. They make absolute fortunes, & deserverdly so imo, they innovated, invested & worked hard to deliver a great, world-leading product. They deserve their success in my view.

AOL and Time Warner merger, what a corporate disaster...

They also stole the Overture advertising system from Yahoo!, and that's what Google have made their billions from (enabling them to grow from just being a search engine).  Google doesn't do everything right, but I'm still a fan in general.  Would be churlish to say otherwise considering I've been making a living in a sector that Google is the main player.  Funny that my career in online marketing is also about 15 years old.  They've made a bit more than I have in that time though!

'bout time you pulled you socks up mate
:)

Yahoo! also had the opportunity to buy Google for not that much money at all.  Big mistake; HUGE mistake!