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A few years back, Sergey and Larry were on NPR's Fresh Air. At one point in the interview, Terry Gross says "I tried searching for 'Google' by putting 'Google' into the search box and clicking I'm Feeling Lucky, but it didn't seem to do anything." Larry tries to explain what happened, but it seemed to go over Terry's head. At one point during the explanation I think Sergey mentioned recursion, and Terry asks "Recur-w…
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and if you search for www yahoo is first. http://i.imgur.com/mhDzY.jpg
That looks like a personalised result, especially with the google.ca underneath. My UK Chrome incognito result has BBC, Wikipedia (World Wide Web), Wikipedia, Facebook and... uhh... Radisson Blu hotels.
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I used Altavista right up until I first heard of Google. Before Altavista I used Webcrawler ( http://thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html ).
Ahh you're bringing back memories. I was av.com (altavista) before google, and yahoo.com before that. It's easy to forget how much search engines sucked before google.
But I remember using Altavista for a long time after switching to Google because of Babelfish (translator0 and Image Search (was it Altavista?)
Today I use DuckDuckGo a lot.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago, there were complaints that Google favored its own properties in its search results? What happens to that claim now?
This is ancient, it's been like this since before I joined Google, which was before Bing came out. I think back then Dogpile was #1 (??), then Yahoo, then MSN Live. Occasionally it comes up and people get a good chuckle out of it.
http://f.cl.ly/items/1X081Z0a2P1E2y2J3U0Y/email.png
(Gmail is still #1 for "mail" though, probably because of their URL - mail.google.com)
