We wanted something special for our birthday…
Posted by Anna Patterson, Software
Engineer
Google opened its doors in
href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html#1998" >September
1998, and we’ve been pursuing one mission ever since: to
organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible
and useful. For our
href="http://www.google.com/logos/7th_birthday.gif" >seventh
birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index
that is 1,000 times the size of our original index.
I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished in the years since Larry
Page and Sergey Brin set up the first Google data center in Larry’s
dorm room at Stanford. Today, along with web search based on Larry
and Sergey’s original
href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html#1995" >BackRub
search engine, we offer specialized search for everything from
satellite images to academic papers, local business info to your
own computer. We’ve also built software for email and mobile
services, photo management and computer-to-computer voice calling,
to name just a few things.
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.
href="http://www.google.com/help/indexsize.html" >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?
href="http://www.google.com/" >Let’s go.
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