Comments on: Google: The Early Years

Google: The Early Years

PercussivePaul — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:02:45 -0800

was Google's predecessor. Ealier versions of Google. The original hardware, featuring the disk cabinet built of lego, now on display in the Gates building at Stanford University.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:30:38 -0800

[sniff] Our little search engine's all growed up! This is great, thank you.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:44:58 -0800

Those are mega blocks or some sort of knock off. I suppose that's how they got ahead of the other search engines who were wasting all their money on Lego brand building blocks.

By: The Deej

The Deej — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:48:18 -0800

You gotta get up ealy to to make a better search engine than Google.

By: me & my monkey

me & my monkey — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:49:43 -0800

It's a good thing they changed their name. Imagine how awkward it would be to tell someone you backrubbed them.

By: sklero

sklero — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:51:15 -0800

I bet Richard Otcasek gets up pretty ealy.

By: joseph_elmhurst

joseph_elmhurst — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:57:01 -0800

For Ealy?

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:01:05 -0800

So nowadays creepy guys in offices come up behind female coworkers and give them unwanted googles?

By: chudmonkey

chudmonkey — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:06:08 -0800

Great stuff, thanks for this post. I especially enjoyed reading The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. No, seriously.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:21:05 -0800

If you liked the PageRank paper, you'd love these classic Google papers: GFS MapReduce Bigtable (Bigtable is comparatively recent and doesn't really count as "The Early Years" but GFS and MapReduce have been around since the very beginning. (And if you really love this stuff, we're always hiring -- drop me a line...)

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:49:14 -0800

You know, I have pretty hairy forearms myself, but that logo creeps me out.

By: Western Infidels

Western Infidels — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:22:52 -0800

I think it's very instructive to see that the Spartan, functional Google page we're all familiar with was the product of a lengthy process of revision. You'd think simplicity would be simple. But often, it's not.

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:25:21 -0800

now on display in the Gates building That's gotta burn.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:46:15 -0800

lupus_yonderboy, I'd love to (not in the computing area; another division), but there's no email in your profile..

By: PercussivePaul

PercussivePaul — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:12:07 -0800

There's a website in his profile which has his e-mail address.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:25:21 -0800

Wow, if I only had a brain.

By: ruwan

ruwan — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:45:47 -0800

in the Gates building...? zing! on preview: what afroblanco said

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:45:52 -0800

Unfortunately, Google's fairly straight when it comes to hiring non-technical people. :-( I thought when I got a job there I'd find all these fun crazies but (and on hindsight it's obvious) there are a lot of hard-working, dedicated, decent, rather straight people with families and all, and very few crazed psychedelic weirdos at all. You can rest assured that there are a lot of very smart, ethical people there trying to do good things, but don't think that there are a lot of way-out hipsters, 'cause it just ain't the case.

By: humblepigeon

humblepigeon — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:34:12 -0800

in the Gates building...? zing! Curious that Google was built on Linux, and the web had its origins on a NeXT Cube (aka Apple OS X in waiting). Is it possible that Microsoft is just incompatible with the Internet?