Posted by Perseus on 10/21/05 18:45

On 21 Oct 2005 10:56:47 -0700, "HibiscuzBeaver"
<hibiscuzbeaver@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Man you can find anything on Google. Kind of scary.....

HibiscuzBeaver,

Here's a short essay on the thing called "Google".

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful.

Google examines billions of web pages to find the most relevant pages
for any query and typically returns those results in less than half a
second. No other search engine accesses more of the Internet or
delivers more useful information than Google.

Using Google you'll be able to find information in many different
languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup
phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions
of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages --
more than 1 billion posts dating back to 1981.

What's a Google?

"Googol" is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The
term was coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician
Edward Kasner, and was popularized in the book, "Mathematics and the
Imagination" by Kasner and James Newman. Google's play on the term
reflects the company's mission to organize the immense amount of
information available on the web.

And how do you think I know all this.... right, I Googled for it!

I shall not comment on the "scary" part, for others around here do a
much better job at that, I'm sure ;-)

Greetz,

--
Perseus

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