Tuesday, July 19, 2016

201.366 - 2016 project and Google

every day in 2016, write a sentence or a paragraph or a poem that appreciates

Google

bless Google!  you may not remember our own Dark Ages, the internet when it was still new and a browser was a new thing.  we found our way around it like cave dwellers with torches or just feeling our way along the walls.  we hoarded URLs that worked.  kind webmasters provided URLs to related websites.  a friend might email you an URL he or she had found.  and then!  out of the darkness they came.  search engines!  oh my goodness!  you typed in a few keywords for what you wanted, and behold!  the search engine began listing URLS that might have something to do with the keywords you'd entered.  they were mysterious and wonderful, and you often found yourself on a mystery ride.  some websites you went to gave you just what you wanted, some gave you nonsense but nonsense related to your keywords, and some websites on the list had, as far as you could tell, nothing at all to do with your keywords.  among those first search engines, Google soon distinguished itself for me.  it had a cute interface, as if it recognized that we played a game - a game without rules, but one in which winning counted a lot.  it returned the list quickly.  the list seemed to be well-organized, the ones most likely to fit your keywords at the top.  the surprises it brought you were often fun, like learning a new synonym for one of your keywords.  Google soon became my favorite search engine and remains so today.  thank you, wizards who put it together, and wizards who still make it work better now.  bless Google!

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