4 Reasons Why Amazon and Facebook Are Gaining on Google by @hubshout11

In 1998, PC Magazine wrote: "Google! is a Stanford University project designed to find the most relevant Web pages (those with the most inbound links) and run searches against them. The 25 million pages currently catalogued seem to be good choices; the site has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results." Note the exclamation mark in that 1998-99 version of Google's logo, which some say was added to mimic Yahoo's logo.