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They were nice. Though I switched to bing now xD No more doodles for me.
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Ha ha :D
- I don't need to click extra to filter results by date. Google hidden it under extra menu for some reason
- Gifs load in preview when I hover over them, no need to click them and wait for load in this extra sub-page. Makes it faster to find interesting gif
- I can simply choose animated gif in search results filter, no need to manually type "filetype:gif" into search field (or again - opening extra sub menu to find type). The same when it comes to image size, time when it was posted and so on
- Videos can be seen directly from video tab, I don't need to open yt to see it
- I wanted to make myself independent form google D:
Only thing I lack are google maps. The one connected with bing are bad xD And it is sometimes wonky to find really specific pics. Other than that I like it more.
I tried duckduckgo, but this search engine is so limited... you can't even set your own search time frame.
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I concur with everything you said about Bing. I do use it whenever I use MS Edge. I've been using Bing since 30th of July, 2015 right after being an early adopter of Windows 10.
But my love for Google & Chrome far outweighs the perks of early Windows 10 adoption. I couldn't leave Chrome even when it was a resource-hungry monster, a few updates back. The recent v69 has smoothed all the jagged edges & made me fall in love with it again. It got fast & smooth like Moroder's 'Racer'.
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Today on the 27th of September, 2018 Google is celebrating it's 20th birthday with a YouTube clip as their new birthday Doodle!
I'm a BIG fan of Google & can't think of my life without it.
My love affair with Google started from it's very beginning. Around 1997 we first got a dial-up internet connection via a 33.6 Kbps modem. (LOL, I still get confused between KB & Kb or it could very well be kB & kb) The internet connection in those days was billed as per 'time of usage' & not 'amount of data consumed'. I remember we had to buy "hours" from the ISP.
We cool kids immediately took to Yahoo! as the end-all & be-all of the internet. I remember my friends & I were creating Yahoo! Mail IDs dime a dozen, at least 1 new personal email-ID for every month. Hotmail was for my dad's official mail. So we always thought there was an air of hoity-toity formality that goes around with it & left it alone.
Then, in 1998, along came Google. Nobody took any notice of it. Most were thinking what to do with a search engine as in those days most of the things you could dream of doing on the internet were done through Yahoo! (who amongst you remembers those cascading offline folders of bookmarks that they used to install on the PC & having to manually save personal favorite links in a separate folder?).
Then one day a friend informed us that Google can find "research"-worthy pictures easily. Keep in mind in those days seeing a 'bitmap' (referring to it as a BMP came later) image render onscreen was an achievement itself. Videos were out of the question. I remember trying to play a minute-length clipping (most probably a flash file) of "Livin' La Vida Loca" by Rick Martin (who was, at least onscreen, straddlin' 2 girls at the same time) available on his website took around 1½ - 2 hours. As the PC in our house was situated in my dad's study we often had to scour the obscure & shady cyber-cafes for our "research" purposes. Armed with our arsenal of 3½" 1.44 MB floppy disks we invaded those cyber-cafes, where we often had to haggle for getting a corner booth with the least possible amount of interference due to visibility.
After that, some time had passed, we all had settled on our stable email-IDs. I created my last Yahoo! Mail ID around 1999 (still active & in use) & my only Hotmail ID around 2000. Then around October of 2004, I had a life-changing experience as I got an invitation to use Gmail (still running as my primary email; of course, it's not the one I provided here for GA communications).
On 21st of May, 2010, Google offered another life-change experience with the PAC-MAN 30th Anniversary Doodle. Since then I started to look out for other Google doodles. Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order):
• 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop - 11th of August, 2017
• Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday - 5th of September, 2011
• Les Paul's 96th Birthday - 9th of June, 2011
• Alan Turing's 100th Birthday - 23rd of June, 2012
• Clara Rockmore's 105th Birthday - 9th of March, 2016
• Nellie Bly's 151st Birthday - 5th of May, 2015
• Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th Year - 17th of December, 2015
The list could go on until the end of time if I don't stop here now. Feel free to share your favorite Google Doodles.
PS: Don't forget to check out this site: https://www.20years.withgoogle.com/
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