WEBVTT - Google Celebrates Its 20th Birthday

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<v Speaker 1>Hard to believe, but Google is celebrating its twentieth birthday.

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<v Speaker 2>What's going on? Amritz Deemiro? This is rich on tech.

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<v Speaker 1>According to Wikipedia, Google was founded on September fourth, nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety eight.

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<v Speaker 2>But what do they know.

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<v Speaker 1>Google has consistently celebrated its birthdays on September twenty seventh,

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<v Speaker 1>and this year is no different. So what's Google doing

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<v Speaker 1>to celebrate twenty years? Well, for starters, there will be

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<v Speaker 1>a special Google Doodle on the Google homepage. This features

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<v Speaker 1>popular searches from the past twenty years, including what will

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<v Speaker 1>happen on y two K, how do you tie a tie?

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<v Speaker 2>Is Pluto still a planet? How do you make avocado toast?

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<v Speaker 2>And more?

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<v Speaker 1>Each question has a corresponding year to go along with it.

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<v Speaker 1>The final search query is show me pictures of Cute Animals,

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

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<v Speaker 1>which also launches today. There are a few changes here

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<v Speaker 1>For starters, Google's gonna show images from the most.

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<v Speaker 2>Authoritative pages fe first.

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<v Speaker 1>The example they give is that if you're looking for

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<v Speaker 1>pictures of DIY shelving, images from websites dedicated to DIY

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

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<v Speaker 1>so the more a site is updated, the more it's

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<v Speaker 1>images will show up in Google image search. One helpful

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<v Speaker 1>new change has to do with context around images. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>in you're browsing Google image results, you're gonna see captions

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<v Speaker 1>that show you the title of the page that.

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<v Speaker 2>The image is published on.

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<v Speaker 1>The one change Google made to images that's not so

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<v Speaker 1>great they took away the direct links to the images.

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<v Speaker 1>This is because apparently a lot of people would just

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<v Speaker 1>search for an image and then download it. When they

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<v Speaker 1>signed a deal with Getty Images a few months back,

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<v Speaker 1>they took away this functionality. Now the best we get

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<v Speaker 1>is a visit website link which you can click, but

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<v Speaker 1>then you have to go there and hunt for the

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<v Speaker 1>image on the page.

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<v Speaker 2>Not very fun.

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<v Speaker 1>Google also released some funnel videos of the early days

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<v Speaker 1>at Google. One of them features co founder Larry Page

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<v Speaker 1>saying hi to the camera.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Another shows one of Google's first TGIF all hands meetings.

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<v Speaker 1>This is probably video they wanted released, unlike the one

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<v Speaker 1>we recently saw. Oh I guess Sancha's played to take

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<v Speaker 1>on BArch I.

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<v Speaker 2>Probably West hand tennis.

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<v Speaker 1>You can also take a peek inside the original Google

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<v Speaker 1>offices using street view. This is a garage inside a

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<v Speaker 1>residential neighborhood in Menlo Park near Palo Alto in northern California.

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<v Speaker 1>You can walk through the garage's side door and see

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<v Speaker 1>an old school computer front and center with one of

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<v Speaker 1>those giant CRT monitors. The screen has the original Google

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<v Speaker 1>homepage on there, and there's not even a case on

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<v Speaker 1>the computer.

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<v Speaker 2>The tabletop is held up with wooden sawhorses.

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<v Speaker 1>Google says that co founders Larry and Sergey love the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that the rent included the washing machine and the

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<v Speaker 1>dryer that you can also see in the garage, which

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, is not particularly organized.

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<v Speaker 2>From here, you can follow.

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<v Speaker 1>The Ethernet cables down the hallway to another office that

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<v Speaker 1>says Google's Worldwide headquarters on a whiteboard.

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<v Speaker 2>Here you're gonna find more.

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<v Speaker 1>Old school computers and even some sort of Harvard towel

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<v Speaker 1>or blanket draped over a chair. Google says the team

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<v Speaker 1>grew to six people in three small bedrooms.

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<v Speaker 2>At the home.

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<v Speaker 1>You can hunt around to find random things like a

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<v Speaker 1>mini rainbow sphere, a surf frog terrarium, a dinosaur a

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<v Speaker 1>ping pong table, and even a keyboard to.

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<v Speaker 2>Play for a break from coding.

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<v Speaker 1>There's even a secret trapdoor, and if you turn on

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<v Speaker 1>the neon light you can find a cool easter egg

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<v Speaker 1>that will take you through Google history. Now I have

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<v Speaker 1>poked and prodded around this street view and for the

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<v Speaker 1>life of me, I cannot find it.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe you will have more luck.

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<v Speaker 1>Speaking of easter eggs, there are a bunch of them

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<v Speaker 1>in Google search for the twentieth birthday. If you search

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<v Speaker 1>for certain retro terms, you're gonna get a special spelling

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<v Speaker 1>suggestion to help you flash forward to today. For instance,

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<v Speaker 1>if you search MP three file, you're gonna get a

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<v Speaker 1>message saying it's twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 2>Did you mean stream music?

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<v Speaker 1>You can also try watch a DVD page, me chat room,

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<v Speaker 1>what is y two K?

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<v Speaker 2>And clip art. No doubt all of those.

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<v Speaker 1>Searches are in my Google history. And man, remember the

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<v Speaker 1>days of pagers. I thought it was so cool that

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<v Speaker 1>I had a pager. We can't deny how much Google

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<v Speaker 1>has changed our lives and made access to information easier

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<v Speaker 1>than ever, but the company still has its detractors, of course.

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<v Speaker 1>Ironically trending today on product Hunt, the website that's filled

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<v Speaker 1>with all kinds of cool new tech products and services.

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<v Speaker 1>There's a website called No More Google. It lists privacy

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<v Speaker 1>alternatives to Google products. So for an alternative to Google Chrome,

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<v Speaker 1>they say there's Firefox, Brave, Safari.

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<v Speaker 2>And more.

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<v Speaker 1>For Google Search, you can try Duck Duck Go or

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<v Speaker 1>start Page. Gmail gets replaced with fast mail or proton Mail.

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<v Speaker 1>Vimeo and PeerTube takeover for YouTube, Dropbox for Drive, and

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<v Speaker 1>so on and so on. It's tough to imagine making

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<v Speaker 1>a full switch away from Google and a company that

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<v Speaker 1>knows so much about us.

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<v Speaker 2>But clearly it can be done.

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

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<v Speaker 1>which is a.

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<v Speaker 2>Lot of Google services.

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<v Speaker 1>But I do keep privacy top of mind as they

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<v Speaker 1>make choices around the web and especially for mobile products

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

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<v Speaker 1>that we are still just.

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<v Speaker 2>At the beginning of all of this Internet stuff. Thanks

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<v Speaker 2>so much for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>If you want links to everything I talked about here

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<v Speaker 1>in today's podcast, you can check the show notes, or

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<v Speaker 1>just go to my website.

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<v Speaker 2>It is richontech dot tv. You can search for me

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

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<v Speaker 2>I'll talk to you real soon.