life is full of questions
some more useful than others
but luckily internet is full of answers
something weird that I searched up was my full name
and it came up with this lady like in a big dress
I look at dictionary meanings
cute photos of pigs because I like pigs
I regularly search for different hairstyles
once I looked up my name and it came up with
this dude and I was like I'm not dude
getting all that handy information wasn't always just a few clicks away
it's hard to imagine now but in the 90s the internet was still a brand new shiny thing
the power of the internet or learning marketing and just plain having fun has been incredible
I think one thing we can all agree is the Internet is going to be big
they were only about 100,000 websites on the whole world wide web
that's compared to around 162 million now
still it was a lot of info and what would be the point of it if no one could find anything
that's where search engines came in
at their most basic search engines are programs that can look for specific keywords in documents or files
and then come back with the results of where those keywords were found
in the 90s there were heaps of different search engines popping up and
some became really popular for a while
but they were generally pretty slow confusing and the results often weren't what you were looking for
that's where these guys came in Larry Page and Sergey Brin
they met at this uni in the US and decided they could make a better search engine
they found a way to tell the program how to measure the importance of a page
not just by how many times a keyword was mentioned in it
but by how many other relevant pages linked to it
then it could quickly rank the results they called their new search engine BackRub
eventually they wanted a new name can't think why
they chose a play on this word a
mathematical terms the number one
followed by 100 zeros and on the 4th of
September 1998 that famous company was
born in a friend's garage
20 years and a much nicer office later
it's the most popular search engine in
the world 4.5 billion users in 160
countries speaking 123 different
languages type in important searches
everyday like 'how do you make slime?'
'what is kimchi?' and my personal favorite
'why is my poop green?' seriously they were
a few of the top searches last year and
in 2006 it was officially entered into
dictionaries as a verb
so why is it that this well-known internet search engine is still used more than any other
well experts reckon it's because it's
remained simple fast and most users feel
like they're getting the most relevant
results now whether that's true or not
it's also just that people are used to
using it and so it's kind of difficult
to get them to switch to anything else
so while it isn't everyone's preferred
search engine there's no denying the
impact it's had on the history of the
internet and how we get our information
so finally what would a chair look like
if your knees bent the other way yeah I
don't know just google it