Technology
You can explore the garage where Google was born on Street View
To celebrate Google’s 20th birthday, the tech giant is opening up the garage it was founded in, plus a bunch of other fun things.
The Google garage, as it was in 1998, is now explorable on Street View, complete with many CRT monitors, cables galore, and a washer and dryer that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin gleefully used as part of their rent.
Page and Brin spent the winter of 1998 working out of Susan Wojcicki’s garage, the YouTube CEO who back then was fresh out of school and was afraid of missing her mortgage payments.
The house on Santa Margarita Avenue in Menlo Park is now owned by the tech giant and no one lives there.
If you can’t get there, you can take a stroll inside “Google Worldwide Headquarters,” which features a ping pong table, and a keyboard for music breaks.
Google has also unveiled easter eggs that will show up in search.
When you look up certain (outdated) search terms like “mp3 file,” “watch a dvd,” “gettin’ jiggy wit it,” “page me,” or “butterfly clip styles,” you’ll be recommended with things that are more relevant in 2018.
As announced earlier this week, Google Images has also launched a redesign on desktop, which features a new ranking algorithm that will prioritize content that is fresher and can be found on pages where the image is important, like a product page, for instance.
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