Google Turns Seven

As the Google Blog says, it was seven years ago that Google began operating out of Susan Wojcicki's spare room. I invite you to turn to page 86 of John Battelle's fine opus, "The Search" (oh, just buy it, damn you!), for a fine anecdote about those early days. seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index that is 1,000 times the size of our original index. But search remains our heart and soul, so I'm especially pleased by this latest expansion of our index, which makes Google more than 3 times larger than any other search engine. 19 billion web pages. Both companies are basically saying, "We're big, but its about more than that". They're right. The proof lies beyond the search box, not with some text below it. On a side note, no, I did not scan in a page from the book. Its just a screenshot from Amazon's "Search Inside The Book". Nathan Weinberg writes the popular InsideGoogle blog.