This morning I did as I usually do several times a day—I went to Google to perform an Internet search. This time the front page informed me that Google is now celebrating its ninth birthday.
I'm not sure what to think about that.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
If you think about that too much, you can find yourself ranking it among the world's most terrifying statements. Not that it in any way diminishes the value Google and other search engines have added to our lives. But whether for good or for ill, the Internet and Google have wrought radical changes. I'm old enough for nine years to seem but an instant, and find it hard to believe the pre-Google world was less than a decade ago.
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