Google's 9th Birthday

[Harry]

Today Google is celebrating it's 9th Birthday so let's Wish them it's time.

[alan]

I think I must wish Google on their 9th birthday because who knows after crawling this page I could get good ranking.

[Dan]

Yep.. and it was their 8th last year ;D

[kev woodman]

Do we need to send cards?

[Cassie]

I just love all their adaptations of their logo - I hear they have someone full time designing just that.

[Cassie]

Another nice one on Google today - Sputnik: Fiftieth Anniversary

[kev woodman]

That's a cool one - where would we have been without our little fellow traveller so happy birthday to Sputnik as well.

[jon123]

And not forgetting Sergei Korolev who was the mastermind behind Sputnik. IT is strange these days to think that he is relatively unknown, and yet his US counterpart, a Nazi, is famous the world over.

[krakov]

Congrats, Google.

[kev woodman]

Sadly true Jon. If he hadn't of died so young maybe the Soviets would have got to the moon first.

[jon123]

I think so Kev, although who can say. I think he was so far ahead of the USA even though he was using the technology of the V2's long range delivery system, but all that time he spent in prison makes you wonder.

[kev woodman]

Although if he hadn't of been in prison he may have been drafted into the war and not survived - although that probably wasn't much of a comfort in the gulag.