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We’re a few days early, but Google is about to turn 10 years old this month (they opened their doors in September 1998).
On the Web, a decade is a looong time, so we were curious to see what the Google website looked like when it originally launched.
Here it is:
At the time, Google didn’t have much on the actual Google.com domain: Only two links, one to the regular Google version, then hosted at google.stanford.edu and called “Google Search Engine Prototype,” and another to a beta version named “Might-work-some-of-the-time prototype.” The screenshot above is from the google.stanford.edu domain in November 1998.
They already had the ”I’m feeling lucky” button in place, but some things were definitely different.
Note the exclamation mark: “Google!”
We love the comment “Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger).” You can say that again. These days, Google’s index contains many billions of pages.
Happy birthday, Google!
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Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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Eric
September 5th, 2008 at 8:51 am
That’s awesome. I had totally forgotten about the “!”.
A little bit like “Yahoo!” isn’t it?
JD Justice
September 5th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Random comment:
I just wanted to drop by and say that your weblog is one of the most entertaining and consistently fun (and informative) feeds in my RSS reader.
Keep up the great work!
~A satisfied reader and customer =)
Pingdom
September 8th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Thanks JD!
That’s definitely one of the best “random comments” one can receive.
Glad you like it!