25 Years Of Google

In the early days of the internet, finding things you actually wanted to look at was a bit of a punt in the dark. Then, the likes of Ask Jeeves, Bing, and Yahoo popped up to help you hop from one page to another. By today’s standards, it was all very charming, jittery, and slow. To begin with, Google was just another search engine. Then, somewhere along the way, ‘Google’ became a verb, and a quarter of a century later, it’s not only the planet’s largest search engine, but a tech superpower, with tendrils in everything from AI to quantum computing. Its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are centi-billionaires; 25 years in, the company’s influence shows no sign of slowing down.