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Search Engines - Why For Are They Here?
 What with the use of computers for looking up dirty photographs, the search engine is more popular than ever.
The most used search engines are 'Fettler', 'ToffeeDog' and 'Google'.
But did you know that the popular search engine 'Google' was running long before the internet began?
Here's the history behind dat.
1971. Brian Google is in a pub talking with mates... one is stuck as to a crossword answer.
"If only there were some way to find the answer quickly" says the chap.
The next day...
Brian notices that a little girl has been stung by a wasp.
"What to put on it though?" says the girl's distraught mother, "I know that it's either an acid or alkaline substance for a bee, and the other type for a wasp - but which is which?"
Suddenly, our hero is inspired... and goes and buys a house next door to a library.
First he puts an advert in the local newspaper:
'Want to know something? Anything at all? Phone Brian Google - the man with all the answers!'
And when someone rang, he'd nip around to the library and look it up for them.
A couple of years later he brought out a 'Broadband' version... for a few quid a month extra, you could phone his son Terry who actually worked in the library and could get you the info. much quicker.
and just to make sure that the whole thing wasn't foolproof, every now and then, someone from the phone company would come and tamper with the line to stop the system from working effectively.
I have to go now, as I'm getting the urge to use the interweb to find a photograph of a naked Nerys Hughes straddling a bicycle!
Good bike!
Last edited by Dearth, 3/Jan/2005, 19:56
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Re: Search Engines - Why For Are They Here?
i love you guys
goooodd miii
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Re: Search Engines - Why For Are They Here?
Thats very interesting.
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