Happy Birthday, Google

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.09.08 | 6:37 AM ET

The world-shrinking company that launched a verb turns 10 this week, and the event (so my trusty Google search tells me) is gaining plenty of media attention. The Globe and Mail has a list of 10 ways Google has changed the world (No. 1: “perpetual beta”), while the San Francisco Chronicle takes a look back at the early years of the “nascent search engine, operated from a couple of cramped dorm rooms and burdened with a goofy name.” Cnet’s Charles Cooper, meanwhile, explains why he won’t be showing up to the party.

Tags: Global Village, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Happy Birthday, Google

Ling 09.09.08 | 11:23 PM ET

Myabe we should have a ‘No Google Day’. You know, like, nobody in the world does any searching for one full day. Might help realize how important it is, and how we used to do things before Google came along.

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