# First time on google **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040 "2004-07-23T16:46:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brainbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@brainbug](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brainbug)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/1 "2004-07-23T16:46:47Z")
Hey guys, I don’t post around here often, but I think I really should, so here goes: Do you guys remember your first time using google? I actually heard about it from some people, but I thought it was a stupid name and not as cool as Yahoo!. I gave it a shot one day and instantly fell in :love: with the simplicity of the site. I haven’t used any other search engine since =) – kath ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/2 "2004-07-23T16:51:11Z")
I don’t recall when I started using google. The site just grew on me like some sort of alien pod implanted in my brain 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/3 "2004-07-23T16:52:23Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > I don’t recall when I started using google. The site just grew on me like some sort of alien pod implanted in my brain 😛 same here… I used to use yahoo a lot (powered by google anyway) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/4 "2004-07-23T16:57:28Z")
What is this google you speak of? lol No I don’t remember the first time I used google but I do remember the first time I ever used the internet. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to just search Canadian pages. lol ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/5 "2004-07-23T17:02:07Z")
Oooh, good question. 🙂 I remember it well. I had just learned what a googol (and a googolplex) was. And I was trying to explain it to my friend, who is very math-illiterate. He thought a 1 with a hundred 0s on the end was still a 1. :sigh: Anyway, the next day (I think) I was on the internet, and I wanted to learn more about these googol thingies, because I’m a mathie that way and all, but I forgot that googol is spelled with an o, and thought it was spelled google. Also, at the time, I only really used Yahoo! as a search engine, but I hated it so much that I always tried \.com and \.ca and \.\ And that is how I first got to google. :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/6 "2004-07-23T17:06:33Z")
haha, it’s my homepage. :p: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/7 "2004-07-23T17:11:24Z")
hmm i think i found out i was on google after i found out there are 7,170 hits for me.😛 [http://www.google.com/search?q=wicked6th&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0](http://www.google.com/search?q=wicked6th&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/8 "2004-07-23T17:11:56Z")
I always used dogpile and vivisimo and stuff, but then they were using it at school and it just sort of grew on me. ---
**Author:** ![DarkChild](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/darkchild/32/528_2.png) [@DarkChild](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DarkChild)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/9 "2004-07-25T14:11:04Z")
> [@bodyvisual](#): > > haha, it’s my homepage. > > :p: same here 😉 ---
**Author:** ![telekinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@telekinesis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/telekinesis)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/10 "2004-07-25T17:36:31Z")
I used MSN search for the longest time until I ran into Google and have used it every since! :tie: ---
**Author:** ![DariusMonsef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@DariusMonsef](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DariusMonsef)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/11 "2004-07-25T17:44:57Z")
I can’t use any other search engines now. MSN search is totally crap in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![thoriphes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@thoriphes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/thoriphes)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/12 "2004-07-25T17:53:28Z")
I can’t stand any other search engines as well because of all the stuff in the way. Google is so simple and elegant. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/13 "2004-07-25T18:35:36Z")
it was back in the day - i remember hearing about it from a friend and I thought it was a cool name -(the math related deal googolplex) so i tried it, and instantly found what i needed and have been using it ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Hans\_Kilian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hans\_Kilian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Hans_Kilian)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/14 "2004-07-25T22:42:10Z")
I used altavista in the beginning. And then a danish one called jubii (the name’s a blatant rip-off of yahoo). Then jubii started to add annoying ads so I started to use google more and more. Haven’t used jubii for years now. When I need a dictionary search I use Yahoo! ---
**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/15 "2004-07-25T23:49:43Z")
There are other search engines? :h: ---
**Author:** ![mdipi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mdipi/32/49_2.png) [@mdipi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mdipi)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/16 "2004-07-26T00:12:40Z")
I remembered i used to use yahoolagins at school (the little kid search engine) and then we “upgraded” to Yahoo! in middle school. Then my dad started to use Dogpile and Alta-Vista (before it became full of warez sites) so i used those. Then with IE i would just type it in the little address box and use MSN wich i thought was great. Then i got the Google tool bar and the rest is history 😃 ---
**Author:** ![McGiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@McGiver](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGiver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/17 "2004-07-26T00:13:36Z")
> There are other search engines? yes there are, but they use either the google systhem or are used by less than 15 people a day ---
**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/18 "2004-07-26T00:22:28Z")
:sarcasm: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![McGiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@McGiver](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGiver)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/first-time-on-google/117040/19 "2004-07-26T00:27:43Z")
yep, i already thought something like that - but thanks for the hint 😉