Posted on 09/15/2022 8:18:50 AM PDT by libh8er
Do you remember the first time you heard about Google? If you’re younger than 35, it may feel like it’s always been a thing . . . but if you’re older, you might remember when it became THE way to search the Internet.
Today, Google.com is officially 25 years old. Google itself has picked various dates to celebrate its birthday over the years, but the domain was registered on September 15th of 1997. And it really started to take off in the year 2000.
Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in 1996.
The name “Google” originated from a misspelling of “googol“, which refers to the SUPER LONG number: 1 followed by one-hundred zeros.
Google News was launched in 2002 . . . Gmail came in 2004 . . . Google Maps arrived in 2005 . . . Google Chrome was added in 2008 . . . and the social network Google+ launched in 2011, and then was shut down in April of 2019.
A day that will live in infamy.
Back when their motto was “don’t be evil “. They literally dumped that doing the Obama years.
Also little known factoid. Google used to be a search engine. You could type in what you wanted to search for and it used to literally would find things perfectly related to it. Now they call themselves a decision engine. It now provides that it thinks you actually meant.
Worthless.
It was good until about 2011 or 2012. Then it went downhill fast.
An example of google search, I just did a search “amazing grace written by former slave”, and all I got was ‘former slave trader’.
Since I know that John Newton had once been a slave I can eventually get to something about it, but if you don’t already know what you are looking for then you will almost always get the left’s version of reality.
Try to look up Geronimo’s atrocities or torture and cruelty.
Doing searches on Google in the past used to provide meaningful results when trying to find out more about a specific topic. Now paid content and advertising results muddy up the search results with plenty of emphasis on fake news.
Lycos Email is still available? Wow, I gotta check that out!
I have no idea where you got your information, but it is dead wrong.
“Amazing Grace” is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.
Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life’s path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others’ reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy. After leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy. This moment marked his spiritual conversion but he continued slave trading until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether. Newton began studying Christian theology and later became an abolitionist.
I saw a Tweet from a Brit today complaining that their Dyson hoover was failing.
He had also been a slave, see how the internet and google search works now?
“Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone.[2] He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, becoming Captain of several slave ships.”
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