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14 Years of Feeling Lucky, Happy Birthday Google

It's been 14 years since the emergency rafts full of netizens started to ditch the sinking ships of websearch services Altavista, Yahoo, AskJeeves, WebCrawler, MSN and AOL Search.

It’s been 14 years since the emergency rafts full of netizens started to ditch the sinking ships of websearch services Altavista, Yahoo, AskJeeves, WebCrawler, MSN and AOL to climb aboard the OG-search-for-search-sake engine. As the 5th largest U.S. company gets closer to eclipsing Walmart and Microsoft, it seems that a Motherboard doodle — as well as a retrospective GIF of Google’s doodles are in order:

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