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September 09, 2003
Google and the Web - Wow
This isn't at all a new thought but I had such amazing results with a couple of searches today that more and more I realize the Web is coming into its own as the global encycopedia of all knowledge with Google as the index.
I realized the power of the Web from almost the first moment I used Mosaic but over the years it has grown amazingly to meet that potential and Google has appeared to allow us to exploit it.
These are two of the searches I did today. I wanted to know the distance from Seattle to Portland and so did a search on it and not only did the first result give me an exact distance and estimated travel time it did it without me having to even visit the actual page. I also wanted to look up the name of a cooking store in Paris and found that as like the 3rd link with the store's name that I couldn't remember but could recognize again on the Google page without having to visit the linked page. This is for a country with a different language and a pretty vague search!
A toast to the WWW and Google!
Posted by aarondf at September 9, 2003 01:46 PM
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