Back in the late nineties…
Back in the late nineties, the so called search engine pundits were as visionary as our economists have been of late. Just as we are now having our soft landing, those pundits predicted the imminent end of the search engine, claiming that it was becoming impossible to effectively filter and manage content, and deliver relevant results.
At the time, the major search engine was www.excite.com
One fine day two alumni from Stanford University approached this World leading search engine, and offered to sell them their innovative new algorhythms for just one million dollars.
The geniuses at excite laughed them out of the building. So Larry Page and Sergey Brin decided to go ahead and set up their own search engine. The rest is history, and the irony is that excite.com not only quietly left the World stage, but they actually even host Google ads now on their “bar fly†home page. Looking at excite now, it is hard to believe that in 1998 there was a 6.7 billion dollar merger of Excite and @Home. Free falling from the dizzy heights is not a phenomenon that is exclusive to Irish banks and property developers.
We thought you might like a little nostalgia; this is actually the Google home page from back then -Â baby google
And there was another kid on the block back then – baby yahoo
Jim – Prosperity.ie
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