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Kim_Bruning on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal m...

I still remember a conversation I had in the day:

me: "Here, I'll look for that using google, it's just about the best search engine around right now."

colleague: "If it's really that good, why haven't I heard of it?"

me: "You just did"

raddan on July 25, 2025 [–]

JFGI was a thing people actually said where I worked at the time. I wouldn’t be caught dead saying that now.

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