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(Superdream)		Happy Birthday Google (1997-2007) - Ten years in screenshoots (superdream.blogter.hu)		103
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twobux		2007-09-16 04:35:30 PM

Well that was fascinating. Maybe next time I'll look at 10 years of watching grass grow.

And-1		2007-09-16 05:19:54 PM

Seriously. I could probably count the number of pixels that changes on the fingers of one hand. Submitter needs to get a life.

Mugato		2007-09-16 05:28:46 PM

My grandpa was telling me about how when he was a little boy, Google had a slightly different font on its main page but I never believed him.

Gosling		2007-09-16 05:35:00 PM

Screenshoots?

whidbey		2007-09-16 06:04:31 PM

No, I'm sorry, submitter, but I happen to know it's only been around a couple of months...

Big Merl		2007-09-16 06:39:40 PM

Man, look at how cluttered that page is.

MorningBreath		2007-09-16 07:15:48 PM

doofus left someone's email address on the last screen capture.

And-1		2007-09-16 07:20:14 PM

Gosling: Screenshoots

LOL, I missed that. I guess that's what happens when you masturbate over teh Google.

strangeguitar		2007-09-16 07:45:30 PM

Tackboard		2007-09-16 07:49:28 PM

and I'm sure the 25 year bench mark world wide party will be required for all to attend??

poorjon		2007-09-16 07:50:21 PM

Good for them. I wonder what they'll get for selling ten years of my search records.

dixiblogger		2007-09-16 07:51:25 PM

Happy Birthday Google :)

kilgorn		2007-09-16 07:51:27 PM

The "Bad Girls Blog" is worth a look see....

tchau		2007-09-16 07:52:03 PM

I kinda like the old google design better

liloleme		2007-09-16 07:53:06 PM

Phillip is going to get an unreal amount of email today.

lucasorvis		2007-09-16 07:53:55 PM

RIMS.

Will Continue to Monitor		2007-09-16 07:54:19 PM

You'll get over it.

professor sandwich		2007-09-16 07:54:36 PM

Not accurate, anyway. Several of those weren't the standard screens, they were various holiday screens and a Winter Olympics screen. I'll shut up now.

the_chief		2007-09-16 07:55:23 PM

Black people don't use google.

CaboGuy26		2007-09-16 07:55:24 PM

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

doombot		2007-09-16 07:55:41 PM

Fascinating!

wowzer97pooh		2007-09-16 07:57:15 PM

Google? Big deal.

Yahoo! Try clicking the exclamation point. See. That's exciting!

Day_Old_Dutchie		2007-09-16 07:57:45 PM

strangeguitar BORING!

I invite you to click on some of those "archive" links down the right-hand side of that web page.

Definitely not BORING!

Oldiron_79		2007-09-16 08:00:37 PM

Yahoo=better

TrevorP		2007-09-16 08:00:45 PM

I think I liked the 2006 look the most...

ErgosumDominati		2007-09-16 08:01:16 PM

Yeah, forget what the link points to, hit the links and archives. Darn good stuff.

CravenMorehead		2007-09-16 08:01:20 PM

What a fascinating look back on how a website changed over 10 years. Who ever thought such a thing was possible?

HolyGeekboy		2007-09-16 08:03:08 PM

Did anyone else notice the link at the bottom of the page, to the photo gallery of injured war vets?

Link may be disturbing, contains pictures of disfigured yound men and women. (new window)

This is the "sacrifice" we keep hearing about, along with the flag-draped coffins.

I have some overwrought emotional speech in my about this somewhere, but now is not the time.

/Support the troops, bring them home
//Brother did two tours, he "only" has one wicked scar on an arm from IED shrapnel

skinink		2007-09-16 08:04:21 PM

That's nothing. Here' ten years in screenshots of Zombo.com:

serial_crusher		2007-09-16 08:04:48 PM

What's with the "BONUS!" propaganda at the bottom?

HolyGeekboy		2007-09-16 08:04:48 PM

Somehow my link got dumped.

Link (new window)

Deadhouseplants		2007-09-16 08:05:51 PM

I'm Yahoo.com, and I'm getting a hit out of these replies.

tboucher		2007-09-16 08:06:37 PM

10 years of google + a couple slams on the president and a few others, what a waste of bandwidth.

serial_crusher		2007-09-16 08:06:41 PM

HolyGeekboy: This is the "sacrifice" we keep hearing about, along with the flag-draped coffins.

We're making killer advances in prosthetics as a result though. NPR a few months back did a story about a DARPA project where the prosthetics were actually controlled by the patients' nervous systems.

Broken Logic		2007-09-16 08:08:44 PM

Ten years later, and its still sounds dirty to 'google' yourself.

/'Course you can Fark yourself too
//kinda

skankboy		2007-09-16 08:09:52 PM

tboucher: what a waste of bandwidth.

Is your bandwidth somehow limited? Does it bother to see it wasted? What exactly is your beef?

Nanookanano		2007-09-16 08:10:06 PM

Everything is possible, at Zombo dot com.

/have seen the Zombo secret

Raverdave		2007-09-16 08:10:19 PM

Google, where would i be without you...thanks for all the porn.

goletaal		2007-09-16 08:15:24 PM

Anyone?

Puddy		2007-09-16 08:16:30 PM

wowzer97pooh: Google? Big deal.

Yahoo! Try clicking the exclamation point. See. That's exciting!

I never knew that existed. I was easily entertained for 15 seconds!

/my exclamation point does nothing
//just like this greenlight did nothing for me

GungFu		2007-09-16 08:16:45 PM

"The googles, they do nothing"

jaylectricity		2007-09-16 08:16:51 PM

Google

IggyE		2007-09-16 08:17:08 PM

actually, i found a couple things interesting about the site. namely that at one point, it was hailed by yahoo as the greatest search engine, and now they are competitors. then also, you can see how the archives have grown from 25 million pages, to 3 billion, to 4.5 billion to 8ish billion, to now... who knows, they removed that part.

i did notice though about the non standard homepages. i think a more comprehensive timeline would be intereting, but then agian im a giant nerd, and clicked this link out of irony hoping that they would all look the same (cause it nearly does)

Axolotl		2007-09-16 08:17:52 PM

Broken Logic Ten years later, and its still sounds dirty to 'google' yourself.

Try "Wiki-ing" yourself - run your whole name through Wikipedia. Assuming you don't have your own entry, the random subjects Wiki thinks might be related to you can be amusing.

Mine:

* List of Euphorbia species
Relevance: 100.0% - -
* Strawberry Shortcake: The Sweet Dreams Movie
Relevance: 95.8% - -
* Helena Bonham Carter
Relevance: 93.0% - -
* List of ER episodes
Relevance: 89.0% - -
* The Legend (box set)
Relevance: 89.0% - -
* Bitter Sweet Symphony
Relevance: 88.1% - -
* Little Love Letters
Relevance: 86.5% - -
* Straitjacket Fits
Relevance: 85.9% - -
* Mo Udall
Relevance: 85.3% - -
* The Sweeney
Relevance: 84.9% - -
* Dayton Flyers men's basketball
Relevance: 83.9% - -
* 1898 in music
Relevance: 83.9% - -
* Johnny Cash discography
Relevance: 83.8% - -

rebelyell2006		2007-09-16 08:22:16 PM

Axolotl: Try "Wiki-ing" yourself - run your whole name through Wikipedia.

Did that, and the first result (100.0% match) was "Sadism and masochism and medical terms." How did that not surprise me.

TeddyRooseveltsMustache		2007-09-16 08:22:51 PM

Yeah google, happy birthday. Oh, and thanks for ruining youtube for all of us.

Johnny_Canuck		2007-09-16 08:24:11 PM

I.hear.ya.goletaal

/when.yahoo.search.sucked.bad

wowzer97pooh		2007-09-16 08:24:33 PM

Puddy: wowzer97pooh: Google? Big deal.

Yahoo! Try clicking the exclamation point. See. That's exciting!

I never knew that existed. I was easily entertained for 15 seconds!

/my exclamation point does nothing
//just like this greenlight did nothing for me

Not bad, huh? It reminds me of "Raising Arizona".