What Google looked like in 1998

that wasn't a joke at all, but more pure amazement! and we joke here
too ya know. Just don't joke too many times in a short period or you will
be banned.

Oh yeah, and don't make fun of moderators or you will be banned.

One more thing, if you question me or any other member again, including
yourself, you will be banned.

aw hell....if you come back to this forum, you will be banned!

breathe - banned
blink - banned
swallow - banned















hehe jk

I am bumping this up because of this:


The soon to be much bigger part cracks me up!

That was in 1998, and now it says:


Its 120 times the size it was back in 98, and thats in 5 years, so we could easily be seing the real reason it's called google in the near future.
(Google is a really really big number, don't remember how many zeroes but heck they are still close with 3 trillion!)

well if google grows steadily based on 120 times it size every 5 years... (which it wont it should grow much faster)...

then in 50 years: 1,857,520,926,720,000,000,000,000,000,000
or 1.9 nonillion

in 100 years: 5,324,666,656,177,048,780,800,000,000,000,000,000
or 5.3 undecillion

in 250 years: 2,688,196,740,684,200,183,964,802,112,510,400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or 2.7 trevigintillion

in 500 years:
3,082,334,383,309,505,588,012,526,977,710,100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
or 3.1 octovigintillion

almost there (god I was really bored!)
ah crap
I lost count! it's not really in 500 years, more like 400 but who cares, this is really insignificant, considering google should grow at an increasing rate, probably from 120x every five years to 240x every five years and so on, at which point google would probably make a googol at somewhere around 50 years.

Yes I am really bored. Yea I really have no life. Yes, this all was rather pointless!

Heh, it was still fun to see Brandon. That'll mean for every search given, google will give you more results than can be read through in a lifetime.

well, i find it hard to beleive as well, i mean, it can search thru all those pages in 0.3 seconds at times, makes u wonder, they store all that information....what internet connection r they on, and how much a month lmao :D:D:D

If you're really interested in how google works, here's the beginning of their technology:


http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/1999-66

That contains the original paper from Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page from Stanford, and describes the original pagerank and search database algorithm in some detail. They have some neat tricks to get the results so fast...but rest assured, they don't scan through the billions of pages for each query!!!

Those colors hurt my eyes

They really need a overhaul huh!!! LOL