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Speaker 1: Hard to believe, but Google is celebrating its twentieth birthday.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Amritz Deemiro? This is rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: According to Wikipedia, Google was founded on September fourth, nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight.

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Speaker 2: But what do they know.

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Speaker 1: Google has consistently celebrated its birthdays on September twenty seventh,

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Speaker 1: and this year is no different. So what's Google doing

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Speaker 1: to celebrate twenty years? Well, for starters, there will be

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Speaker 1: a special Google Doodle on the Google homepage. This features

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Speaker 1: popular searches from the past twenty years, including what will

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Speaker 1: happen on y two K, how do you tie a tie?

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Speaker 2: Is Pluto still a planet? How do you make avocado toast?

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Speaker 2: And more?

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Speaker 1: Each question has a corresponding year to go along with it.

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Speaker 1: The final search query is show me pictures of Cute Animals,

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Speaker 1: which is a nod to Google's new and improved image search,

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Speaker 1: which also launches today. There are a few changes here

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Speaker 1: For starters, Google's gonna show images from the most.

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Speaker 2: Authoritative pages fe first.

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Speaker 1: The example they give is that if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: pictures of DIY shelving, images from websites dedicated to DIY

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Speaker 1: projects will pop up first. They're also prioritizing fresher content,

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Speaker 1: so the more a site is updated, the more it's

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Speaker 1: images will show up in Google image search. One helpful

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Speaker 1: new change has to do with context around images. Now,

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Speaker 1: in you're browsing Google image results, you're gonna see captions

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Speaker 1: that show you the title of the page that.

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Speaker 2: The image is published on.

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Speaker 1: The one change Google made to images that's not so

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Speaker 1: great they took away the direct links to the images.

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Speaker 1: This is because apparently a lot of people would just

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Speaker 1: search for an image and then download it. When they

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Speaker 1: signed a deal with Getty Images a few months back,

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Speaker 1: they took away this functionality. Now the best we get

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Speaker 1: is a visit website link which you can click, but

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Speaker 1: then you have to go there and hunt for the

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Speaker 1: image on the page.

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Speaker 2: Not very fun.

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Speaker 1: Google also released some funnel videos of the early days

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Speaker 1: at Google. One of them features co founder Larry Page

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Speaker 1: saying hi to the camera.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen, there's Larry CEO Google, say something hi.

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Speaker 1: Another shows one of Google's first TGIF all hands meetings.

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Speaker 1: This is probably video they wanted released, unlike the one

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Speaker 1: we recently saw. Oh I guess Sancha's played to take

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Speaker 1: on BArch I.

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Speaker 2: Probably West hand tennis.

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Speaker 1: You can also take a peek inside the original Google

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Speaker 1: offices using street view. This is a garage inside a

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Speaker 1: residential neighborhood in Menlo Park near Palo Alto in northern California.

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Speaker 1: You can walk through the garage's side door and see

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Speaker 1: an old school computer front and center with one of

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Speaker 1: those giant CRT monitors. The screen has the original Google

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Speaker 1: homepage on there, and there's not even a case on

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Speaker 1: the computer.

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Speaker 2: The tabletop is held up with wooden sawhorses.

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Speaker 1: Google says that co founders Larry and Sergey love the

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Speaker 1: fact that the rent included the washing machine and the

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Speaker 1: dryer that you can also see in the garage, which

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Speaker 1: by the way, is not particularly organized.

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Speaker 2: From here, you can follow.

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Speaker 1: The Ethernet cables down the hallway to another office that

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Speaker 1: says Google's Worldwide headquarters on a whiteboard.

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Speaker 2: Here you're gonna find more.

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Speaker 1: Old school computers and even some sort of Harvard towel

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Speaker 1: or blanket draped over a chair. Google says the team

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Speaker 1: grew to six people in three small bedrooms.

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Speaker 2: At the home.

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Speaker 1: You can hunt around to find random things like a

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Speaker 1: mini rainbow sphere, a surf frog terrarium, a dinosaur a

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Speaker 1: ping pong table, and even a keyboard to.

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Speaker 2: Play for a break from coding.

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Speaker 1: There's even a secret trapdoor, and if you turn on

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Speaker 1: the neon light you can find a cool easter egg

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Speaker 1: that will take you through Google history. Now I have

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Speaker 1: poked and prodded around this street view and for the

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Speaker 1: life of me, I cannot find it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you will have more luck.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of easter eggs, there are a bunch of them

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Speaker 1: in Google search for the twentieth birthday. If you search

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Speaker 1: for certain retro terms, you're gonna get a special spelling

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Speaker 1: suggestion to help you flash forward to today. For instance,

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Speaker 1: if you search MP three file, you're gonna get a

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Speaker 1: message saying it's twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Did you mean stream music?

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Speaker 1: You can also try watch a DVD page, me chat room,

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Speaker 1: what is y two K?

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Speaker 2: And clip art. No doubt all of those.

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Speaker 1: Searches are in my Google history. And man, remember the

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Speaker 1: days of pagers. I thought it was so cool that

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Speaker 1: I had a pager. We can't deny how much Google

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Speaker 1: has changed our lives and made access to information easier

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Speaker 1: than ever, but the company still has its detractors, of course.

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Speaker 1: Ironically trending today on product Hunt, the website that's filled

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Speaker 1: with all kinds of cool new tech products and services.

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Speaker 1: There's a website called No More Google. It lists privacy

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Speaker 1: alternatives to Google products. So for an alternative to Google Chrome,

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Speaker 1: they say there's Firefox, Brave, Safari.

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Speaker 2: And more.

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Speaker 1: For Google Search, you can try Duck Duck Go or

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Speaker 1: start Page. Gmail gets replaced with fast mail or proton Mail.

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Speaker 1: Vimeo and PeerTube takeover for YouTube, Dropbox for Drive, and

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Speaker 1: so on and so on. It's tough to imagine making

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Speaker 1: a full switch away from Google and a company that

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Speaker 1: knows so much about us.

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Speaker 2: But clearly it can be done.

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Speaker 1: Personally, I'm gonna stick with what works for me right now,

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Speaker 1: which is a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of Google services.

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Speaker 1: But I do keep privacy top of mind as they

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Speaker 1: make choices around the web and especially for mobile products

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Speaker 1: and service. And as Google turns twenty, it's very clear

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Speaker 1: that we are still just.

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Speaker 2: At the beginning of all of this Internet stuff. Thanks

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Speaker 2: so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: If you want links to everything I talked about here

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Speaker 1: in today's podcast, you can check the show notes, or

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Speaker 1: just go to my website.

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Speaker 2: It is richontech dot tv. You can search for me

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Speaker 2: on Google. Who knows what you'll find I'm rich, Damiro.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon.