Google is 25 Today - What has been Your Experience !

[Die_empty]

The Giant search Engine Google is Marking its 25 years of being in service and providing services to the entire world. As the popular saying goes 'Google is Your Friend'.

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.

*Has Google been your friend?

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.

*How long have you been using Google?

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

*Do you prefer other search engines than Google lately and can you tell why? (If any)

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.

*Is there any improvement would you like to see in Google that you think are not included assuming it is possible?

@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.

[tjtonmoy]

*Has Google been your friend?

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.

*How long have you been using Google?

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.

*Do you prefer other search engines than Google lately and can you tell why? (If any)

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?

[ChiBitCTy]

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.

[Broly46]

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Agreed with the search engine full of junk especially scam link.

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.

[DrBeer]

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 !

[kryptqnick]

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.

[WatChe]

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.

[so98nn]

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.

[2double0]

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.

[Lorence.xD]

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.

[JohnBitCo]

The Giant search Engine Google is Marking its 25 years of being in service and providing services to the entire world. As the popular saying goes 'Google is Your Friend'.

When i opened Google and saw that 25 written in middle of G25GLE, i had no idea what it was about until I came to know that Google has been with us for 25  long years.

Congratulations to Google for the 25th anniversary, today is the 25 birthday of Google. Google is the no.1 search engine.

[NeuroticFish]

I'm not sure what this has to do with Bitcoin and Economics, but well....

Since I had my fair share of web search before Google existed, I can tell that it was a great leap forward, a great fix for all that mess.
With the years passing by the search results were better and better... then the quality started dropping, the scam links and ads for scams have started filling the space and so on.

Meanwhile GMail was made, and Android, and Maps, and so on, and Google started being more a resource hog and a privacy invader than the initial wonder-tool, making decisions that helps more their ad business than the users. It's a sad development, but this is what money (and hunger for more wealth) does.

I wish to see this kind of questions when Bitcoin will also reach 25 years and I wish to believe it will not become as corrupted as Google has became.

[Sanugarid]

*Has Google been your friend?

Yes, I always use google when I'm having trouble or looking for something and I learn a lot from google. They say that if you don't see the answer, google is there. google is your friend as long as you know how to search

[Cookdata]

The Giant search Engine Google is Marking its 25 years of being in service and providing services to the entire world. As the popular saying goes 'Google is Your Friend'.

*Has Google been your friend?

*How long have you been using Google?

*Do you prefer other search engines than Google lately and can you tell why? (If any)

*Is there any improvement would you like to see in Google that you think are not included assuming it is possible?

Let's Talk...

Can't believe Google is older than some people in this forum  , 25 years of scrapping user's email, passwords and pictures, they should by now be the most search engine that contains the world's information that we don't see, no wonder China and Nort Korea fear the use of their engine in all those regions and I hope there are regulations that protect human rights from how google use this information because these information alone is wealth under google that any secondary company can have with just swipe of money from the company to google, I really hope data protection is really working behind the scene.

If I come after  Google, I must commend them for making Google map easy for the public, it is easy to travel and know your next location and how many kilometres to cover before getting to your final destination, I think their innovation also made transportation system like Uber so easy, they are the reason why most of them are easy today.

[Haunebu]

I cannot imagine my life without Google frankly speaking since it has become such an important part of my life along with YouTube. Almost every person on earth is a fan of Google which makes sense.

The whole 25 year doodle was amazing and I hope BTC gets a doodle in a similar manner. Also, the name 'Google' is way better than 'Alphabet'.

[tabas]

Definitely Google has been my friend ever since in my school days and it's like a magic and charm when I was searching for academic things back then. Going to the library is quite far in my house and my school was also distant and that's why it was like my go-to library back in the days.
How long was it already, 25? Oh my, I'm getting old.. to scare all of you, we're all getting old. But honestly, this is a good technology that everyone has embraced and been helpful to us. Who has thought that this search engine will grow a lot this time and have become the most sought compan by most employees.

Also, the name 'Google' is way better than 'Alphabet'.

I agree, and I hope that they put it back.

[goaldigger]

Google is my savior during my high-school days and until now, it has been a great invention and they continue to grow which we should be more thank full as I’m sure google helps you a lot too. I can’t see anyone to replace Google in the next coming years, probably they are here to stay as well because they continue to adapt change and improve their technology too, we’re all lucky to have someone who invented this technology.

[adaseb]

I remember using Google for the very first time and was amazed how reliable and accurate it was compared to Yahoo, Infoseek, AskJeeves or whatever else was out at the time.

So I am not surprised they grew to this great popularity and pretty much are the only search that most people use. From what I recall Bing is maybe used 2-3% and same with Yahoo.

[Peanutswar]

Google is well known search engine and support different services to the user base on my experience it's supports all my need and also being convenient with all the things I need to know. But of course google gets more user friendly unlike the others so id prefer this than the other platform.
Seems like I'm getting old since I used the Google at the ugly version of it.

[el kaka22]

I still use google to this day, and I am aware that there are other alternatives that people uses and maybe one day I will be starting to use one of those but so far at this moment I still use google. They made something that is good enough that I wouldn't need to use anything else so far, I may need it in the future if something goes wrong but for the time being it hasn't provided me with a reason to change it.

I used google chrome as a browser and I stopped using that, so I am not dismissing the possibility of not using google itself one day, but so far it has been my friend. Plus it is still the most used one in the world, so it is really normal and common for someone to keep using it even to this day.