more cool stuff from google

[davespencer]

I needed to figure out the conversion from yards to meters so I typed "yards to meters" into the google tool bar hoping to find a web page with a conversion calc on it. Lo and behold google gave me the answer before they gave me the list of web pages.

If everyone already knew this and I am behind the times, sorry.

Dave

 

[Rupe]

This is the one I use often

http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Google seems to be getting better and better. As far as I'm concerned any of the riches they get they deserve.

Have you tried the mapping program? A much better system than any other. The map unrolls ahead of the cursor instead of downloading whole new pages.

Bob Wulcowicz turned me onto google in it's infancy.

 

[glens]

Turn on your javascript (it's safe enough to do for the site) and visit http://web.archive.org/web/19980502040406/google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html if you want to see google in its infancy...

I've use nobody elses search engine since then.

Glen

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Glen,

do you know when that pic was taken?

When did Google hit the public?

I wonder what the current hardware for Google looks like. Do you think they still use Legos?

 

[glens]

The google.com domain was registered on Sep. 15, 1997 and the images are dated Apr 29, 1998. That's all I can say with any authority.

 

[NickfromWI]

what can you say without authority?

 

[glens]

Well I try to keep that as close to nothing as I can.

 

[glens]

There's a photo of the two lads very near the bottom of this undated (that I could see) document:
The Anatomy of a Search Engine

As with everything archived at http://web.archive.org/ you must enable javascript or the images and links will all try the current server (if it still exists) instead of the archived bits.

Glen

 

[NickfromWI]

Glen, after reading that article, I'm thinking Mrs. Arboristsites comment about you only being as smart as google was quite a compliment!

Seriously, that is an interesting article. Too much time on my hands if I enjoyed reading that!

love
nick

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I skimmed the article. What an amazing concept. Search engines seem very brain-like.

This part, just below the pics, is interesting:

8 Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives

 

[NickfromWI]

in the google bar enter

define:somewordhere, ie...

define:tree

then see what happens! way better than dictionary.com!

love
nick