I noticed this when I got online. Google has been my homepage for over 3 years, so I am very glad it is 8 years old. It seems like it just had its 7th birthday, because I remember a post about it on another forum.

Well, Google has gone further over the years. With Gmail, it made it get way more popular. I was invited by my friend to get a Gmail account and now I use it for business stuff.

Happy Birthday Google!

its been that long ? LOL8 years wow

Personally, my first search engine was google and I always used google as my search engine and never really liked to use any others, they were very lame and didn't show anything.. Something in the years of 2001-02.. but for some time now other search engines also provide nice results, but as a lot of people including me are used to use google, they continue to do so, even though I know some people who only use yahoo, due to they say google show stupid search results and etc. But sometimes I agree that when they, I mean google, started to use pagerank, the first top sites are actually different from what I am searching and I find what i need by scrolling a little bit down or on the second page. :S

Nevertheless, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Even though I am a bit late

I played that Image game once, wasn't amazing though. I never knew about the calculator. And of course, nice cake.

My favourite before Google was Altavista. I remember when it was at the peak of its fame, and had a darn bulky front page. I used to have a site back then called RedStarAF and I remember doing SEO with it. I had to work out with 10 different search engines like Lycos, Altavista, Yahoo etc.

Seriously speaking it was a world of chaos. Not a single search engine provided 100% satisfaction.

Then came Google, to unite the web under it! And hey presto! Altavista seemed like a fat man with a paunch falling ill... lost all its weight within a few months... I remember monitoring Altavista daily and watching it slim down day by day it was funny.

I think I always used MSN search before I discovered Google, for quite a long time too and it was awhile before I started using Google primarily, and I basically never use any other search engine besides Google now.

Another few good ones could have popped up over the last couple of years for all I would know, it's been Google, Google, Google since not long after I discovered it lol.

I remember the old days when i didn't even know google existed, i used to use msn search which is pretty crappy now. I can say not much has changed over there at msn.
On the other hand google is a different story, if you look at all the products and services they have released it is just amazing. I started to use google when other people suggested it to me, google was pretty small when i started using it but it was everything i needed, clean and easy to read results with fast loading times.
Their webmaster services are just amazing, with the sitemaps and the newly introduced website statistics, i have been using all of them on my new sites and it helps alot.
Then you have gmail and google talk and everything, which is a whole different story.

Happy 8th birthday google

-HellFire

t feels like the day I first learnt how to use a computer, Google was my friend, and now its come this far, 8 years is a big achievement.

They should give 8 Free Things to all of its users.

Google started in 1998?? its seems a lot less than that, i didnt even get the internet at home until 2003! and didnt get asdl until a couple of weeks ago. They should really give out free stuff to some members, just the odd mug or tshirt or 2, seeing as theyve got all that money, giivng a free mug to a few users wouldnt go a miss