Google's official founding date was September 7, 1998, making today its seventh birthday. This is a good opportunity to go into the Wayback Machine. At the Internet Archive, the first saved Google search page dates from December 2 of that year. Searches conducted through that saved page return modern results. However, browsing the Google Directory from December, 2000, returns archived results from that time.
Google's 7th Birthday
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(Page 1)3. Google is now out of bet
Let's see what about MSN
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Gabriel Hanner - Law Offices
4. w000t for gooogle!1111111
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Xelysion
5. Happy birthday to Google and its creators. Google has helped me more than I can express with a few words. Hope the Google founders will get richer than B G and will help the Wikipedia-project much more than B G would ever have thought to. Hans Rosenthal (ROHA) (hans.rosenthal AT t-online.de -- replace AT by @ )
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Hans Rosenthal
8. Happy Birhtday Google
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Swanand
9. happy birthday google 7th birthday.
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by VINOD KUMAR
12. "7 years in Google" revealed:
Google Patent:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=12518
anybody using coop seen this...
United States Patent Application: 0050071741
some possibly relevant clips...
59. The method of claim 58, wherein the adjusting the ranking includes penalizing the ranking if the longevity indicates a short life for the linkage data and boosting the ranking if the longevity indicates a long life for the linkage data.
61. The method of claim 54, further comprising: determining an indication of link churn for a linking document providing the linkage data; and based on the link churn, adjusting the ranking of the linked document.
62. The method of claim 61, wherein the indication of link churn is computed as a function of an extent to which one or more links provided by the linking document change over time.
63. The method of claim 62, wherein adjusting the ranking includes penalizing the ranking if the link churn is above a threshold.
doh. my links churn
Yup. This is Google at its best. Hans Rosenthal (ROHA) (hans.rosenthal AT t-online.de -- replace AT by @ )
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Hans Rosenthal
13. Well, at the top of this commercial site, I can read: Microsoft celebrates 30 years as a business, 20 years of Windows. This may be true. But Bill Gates and his Microsoft company haver never ever contributet anything to the benefit of the world wide web -- did he ?
As long as B G is collecting money which he will never be able to even throw away on a single spring day, he does not mean anything to the world. (I mean to the "world", not to the internet world.) I wish Google a long and happy life. Hans Rosenthal (ROHA) (hans.rosenthal AT t-online.de -- ersetze AT durch @ )
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Hans Rosenthal
15. Happy Birthday google, you have helped us more than you will ever know
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dan
16. Happy Birthday Google! Congrats on the big 7!
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Thom Grubbs
19. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOOGLE,HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOOGLE, HAPPY
BIRTHDAY DEAR GOOGLE, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOOGLE!!!!!
I wish google all the best for the comming years!
When you don´t know anything, then www.google.com
or www.google.de or www.google.nl and many more can help you !!!!!
Happy birthday!
AND THANX AND BEST WISHES FROM FAIZA
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Faiza
20. Happy Birthday Google!
You help me every day!
Long live Google & its creators & its users!
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Iulian
1. Does this mean Google Search is now out of beta?!...http://mashable.com/?p=18
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Mashable