Topic: Google is 25 Today - What has been Your Experience ! - page 2. (Read 332 times)

Back then I was a kid, Mozilla Firefox is the one that helps but after upgrading my computer, Google were the one who's have been with my side. It helps me to almost all of the things for decades even there's a new whenever I upgrade my windows recommendations for other search app or browser, I still find Google and download it. From helping me for my studies, to helping me for my money sources  such as jobs especially in the pandemic days. If I could only see the history of my Google from my old computer to compare the progress and my hobbies today. Actually Google's other app like photos actually worked which is I'm really thankful since my phone broke and couldn't recover it, when I logged in my account to other phone, my grandmother picture was there and I'm crying, I did not save it but Google did an auto recovery.

Google is not just our friend, but it is a trend setter.
It managed to capture the wide number of audience during the days when Yahoo and Bing were making their numbers, still Google left them behind and became the number one search engine. It also gave great earning opportunity to publishers through its AdSense while also bringing advertisers to big web portals through AdWords. When people thought internet is nothing but a time waste, Google proved that internet is going to be the biggest superpower and data will work as a blockchain for it. Though, a point where Google cheated us was when it started selling our data (including preferences of anything) to various companies that used it to lure us to buy their products or services.

Yes saw the news early morning as soon as I opened up my chrome on phone. Google has been my friend and it’s the only search engine that I am using so far. I hardly think that I have used any other search engine till date. I am using google since I got my first internet connection back in 2005. Before that I was not blessed with any internet connection neither it was very much possible at where we lived. It was remote village but things got changed when we moved to city and also got to know there are cyber cafe around. That’s where I saw google search. Then rest is history and till date it’s just google.

I don’t think there is anything else we want from the google. They had Advance search tool back in the time and you can do that till date. However they have gone way ahead with the technology. Now we are able to search with images using google lens. I am pretty sure that we all use Google with its full capacity.

I am so much into Google that I almost use all the products launched by then using Google one storage. Happy Client.

i remember when i first started using internet back in 2002, Google was one of the first few websites I heard. With time Google has grown up to capture not only search engine market but also acquired smart phone market through Android OS, YouTube, Cloud market and many more. In these 25 years my experience with Google is excellent and I seriously think how life would be if we don't have free services of google around us.

Google has certainly been helpful to me as a search engine, even though I know that there are valid points against it and even things that I find annoying. But I guess it's a force of habit to use it, and it's neatly integrated into Chrome, which is my go-to browser. I've been using Google for around 15 years, I guess, and I'm occasionally thinking of moving to something else like DuckDuckGo, but I also feel like since most people use Google, it's the best trained one and also I sort of want to see what most people would see.
What I would really like as an improvement is to get results in the language in which I'm writing. It's truly annoying to me, as a Ukrainian, that when I google things in Ukrainian, the top results are very often in Russian, from Russian websites. I'm fluent in Russian as well, but that's not the language I've used to google things, so that means I expect to get information that's local and in my own language, but Google just keeps pushing content in Russian.
Sometimes I even google in English but get results in Russian, even though Russian isn't even selected in my settings as a language in which results should be shown.

Google is a great company !
You can find flaws in their work, but globally - one of the most technological, quality, in terms of the level of services. They also have the widest audience coverage - from the search engine (the basic service of the company), to a huge number of additional, in-demand services ... I personally use a lot of things - from search engine and mail, to clouds, collaboration systems, and mobile platform itself
The company deserves respect and real interest of users. I heartily congratulate the "corporation of goodness" on its beautiful anniversary !

tbh, it isn't just the search engine, even the email itself has always been full of spam, we have never once trust the content on the internet, I had always advice people to not trust anything on the internet, the UFO story, the forbidden ritual to summon demon, voodoo magic blah blah, but you know what there is just more and more gullible people who would trust anything on the internet. Has anything ever change since the last two decades? Yup people are getting dumb and gullible and more and more entrusting the internet, do you see how tinder has revolutionize the dating market with just internet? As if woman today trust the internet and willing to date any stranger on the internet, more than real life dating, I can never imagine in the past people meet woman face to face and they think it is very cool.

WOW, hard to believe it's already 25 years old now. 

I will share a few things on my thought of google.  First off, it's the best search engine to ever have been created by far and it's not even remotely close.  Google is at the front tier of tech and innovation, and they are very good at what they do.

That said, they are an evil corrupt organization just like many of their peers.  The allows for scams ( YouTube ad placements ), they steal information, will turn on your computers microphone to listen in to your conversations etc etc.  I despise who they are, but I acknowledge how good they are too.  It's a catch 22 IMO.

No, google is not my friend. In fact, Google is no one's friend. It's only necessary and widely available, which is why people use it. In almost every platform, and every browser it is the default search engine. So people don't take the time to change it to other services. That's why they are on the top.


It is impossible for me to know the exact time, but it has been long. Ever since I got my first smartphone, I have been using many services provided by Google. It's just the fact that there aren't many good alternatives to it. Now there are many but back in the day, google was the best.

Yes, Duckduckgo. I have heard that they don't collect data the way Google does. And it is very safe to use. They don't track your footprint and keep your privacy safe. Not sure how accurate that claim is but it is better to have an alternative to Google. No hate to Google but what the shit are they doing?

Happy Silver Jubilee celebration to Google.  I saw that the double "O" has been changed to "25" and I didn't understand the meaning until I saw this thread.
Google has been a friend and a partner. He has also been my teacher and dictionary. Without Google, I don't know how learning and researching would have been.

I can't tell the precise date but Google has been my partner for more than a decade.

I have not really used other search engines because Google have always given me what I want regarding general knowledge. But when it comes to scholarly research I have other search engines.

@Bitstar_coin are you carrying out a survey for Google ? The firm should have more local language versions and they should do more to promote privacy.

Happy birthday to Google, I have been using the Google search engine for a long time, I really like its interface and also the accuracy when we search for something from there, apart from that the other products that Google releases (YouTube, Gmail and others) are also very interesting, well they make me addicted but for I prefer to use Microsoft Edge for online reading, all news from around the world is summarized on the front page of Edge.

25 years!, how many here are 25 years old, , how many grew up assuming that the search engine was the "god" of information, it is significant then to say that many of us had the opportunity to live that transition, and it still rules 25 years later, although not as freely as before, the destinations of clic to concerns, doubts, learn etc..

It is still very "strange thinks" to think how the simplest page (UI and UX) on the entire Internet is the most important. 

I miss the days when "don't be evil" was their motto. Nowadays they know far too much about anyone, and the level of advertising makes YouTube impossible to use without ad blocker.
Let me put it this way: I liked Google much more before they got this big.

It's been a long time since Google has been able to help billions of people around the world, and it continues to help with all the questions we want to know. And not only that, it also gives opportunities to almost countless people who earn money because of Google, and one of them is the one who earns thousands of dollars by making content on YouTube. And even in other opportunities, they are able to work for the company as well.

Google is really a great help not only to our adults but also to all students around the world. It also helps in their studies; even those who have not graduated are also gaining knowledge because of Google, which, no matter what question you ask, will immediately provide answer options that match the answer you are looking for. So congratulations on Google's 25 years!

I think I have been using google since the first time I used the internet, at first I really thought that Google is a simple database processing, which later on I found that it's really complicated. What really bothers me nowadays is that when I was trying to find a detailed information or reviews about a product like pc stuff, GPU, CPU or Keyboard or anything, the top search result is marketplace, not the official site, or some article/video about the product, even after I specifically add the word 'review'. Now when I want to find those kind of information I use Bing.

What other might search engine should I or can I choose as my default. I used almost all the Google tools so indeed Google is part of my eveyrday life i celebrate with them and also beleive one day i will be part of the Google team working remotely with them.

Yeah, I also the "25"  substituting the "oo" on Google home page.
Google has been a friend, it's been there for me. (LOL, too cringe..¿). Anyways, I remembered this one time I was always on Google... I won't say 24/7 though, that's too much  . But all my questions and problems, I took it all to Google, since I'm not the kind of person who communicates that much.
I've been using Google for as long as I can remember, but can't pinpoint when exactly.
3. Lately, I've been using Bing more. Google sometimes doesn't give you straight-up answers, and there are lot of information there, you don't know which to trust. But for Bing, it's information is related and not scattered like that on Google.
4. As for improvement I'd say they try to fix the problem of not giving me what I want. People sometimes say " Google knows everything", I don't want to go there and become way more confused than I was before typing my questions.

Recently I saw the 25 substituting double O in google while searching for a picture of an Elephant today. Google has been great in optimizing the usage of the internet as a search engine. With its numerous security and privacy flaws on users, many switched to different and more private search engines. Yet they remain the best for marketers. Its numerous marketing tools like adsense, adwords, etc have helped in boosting the reach of potential clients for businesses and companies. Google is the mother of the internet, everything almost revolves around them, people use google chrome, gmail, google cloud services, keyword research tools etc to better their internet experience. And indeed, I can't be excluded among these users, which many of us still falls as a client in one of their multiple services. They have so much power and influence allocated to them on the internet. Site owners want to rank on google to yield traffic. Hence, google is our friend. I'd want google to reduce its updating speed and also make it easier for sites to rank on first page. People can't understand how the ranking algorithm work these days, whether through guest posts, high DA backlinks or top notch quality niche contents, these methods still may not rank a website in today's google ranking analysis.

At some point, not now, I'd switch to private search engines and leave google, because of the way it rough handles people's data to feed advertisers. If google is 25 I've been using them for 25 years too, lol. I don't know how long I've been using them, but its been quite a long journey using google.

Google has become my friend in finding the information I need. And I am satisfied with Google's search engine service.

Maybe from the start, I have used Google to search for information. But Google wasn't the first search engine I used.

I still use Google to look for information or something, but I also use the search engine if I don't find the results I want from Google.

Maybe the improvement is so that Google can filter the information we find from Google because now there is a lot of information that is not the result of what we want.

Google has been my default search engine for years, I don’t like to use anything Microsoft offers. There are pros & cons to everything but I just feel like my privacy is probably more compromised with Edge & Bing.