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21 Jul 2018, 11:04 PM | #1 |
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Life before Google: What was it like?
In the 20 years since it was founded, Google has provided answers to the most random queries, become a verb and, on Wednesday, received a record $5bn fine after giving itself a bit too much of an edge over its rivals.
Some jobs with an emphasis on research have been altered in major ways by its invention, to the extent that it's hard to imagine how those jobs were once done. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44871028 |
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Before the internet, it was encyclopedias and much library research.
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There were lots of ways to search for things well before Google existed. I used to amaze people by how fast I could find obscure stuff using Apple's Sherlock, starting around 1997 or so I think. Prior to that I was accessing government records and such using the Internet before the World Wide Web existed. I created several printed books that were best sellers in their obscure niche based on my accessing this stuff using the Internet before most people even knew what it was. Google was/is really good at searching, but it has cemented its dominance by creating an entire ecosystem of services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, etc.
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31 Oct 2022, 04:58 AM | #7 |
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I remember around 1980 when I was in high school and we needed to write an essay about something from World War 2, I took the bus to Tel Aviv to a library that kept an archive of newspapers from back then and looked for information there.
Lat week I found some phone-books in my basement (thought they were not from pre-Google era. They were from 2012, not so long ago). |
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