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How Did You First Find Out About Google? Official OCC Poll #24 Rate Topic: -----

Poll: How Did You First Find Out About Google? (96 member(s) have cast votes)

How Did You First Find Out About Google?

  1. OverclockersClub.com (3 votes [3.12%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.12%

  2. Another Web Site (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. USENET or Newsgroup Post (1 votes [1.04%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.04%

  4. Chat Room or IRC Channel (2 votes [2.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.08%

  5. News or Newspaper Article (2 votes [2.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.08%

  6. Teacher or Professor (9 votes [9.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.38%

  7. Friend or Family Member (24 votes [25.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.00%

  8. Other (10 votes [10.42%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.42%

  9. What's Google? (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  10. Don't Remember (45 votes [46.88%])

    Percentage of vote: 46.88%

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Posted 14 March 2005 - 05:59 AM

This weeks poll was submitted by littleaznkid. :)

Pretty simple poll this week, and once again we find ourselves talking about Google. How did you first find out about Google?



I don't remember exactly, but I seem to recall hearing about it in an IRC Channel on Undernet... though it could have been one of my friends there telling me about it. I do remember that it was still in beta at the time, and was already blowing away Altavista.
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 06:14 AM

i just did. it was waaaay better than web-ferret (which sucked) and was easier to use than Yahoo.
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 06:16 AM

I dont remember.. too long ago!

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Posted 14 March 2005 - 06:19 AM

i also don't remember. it was a very long time ago. i think all geeks are born with that knowledge
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 06:55 AM

Silverfox, on Mar 14 2005, 01:28 PM, said:

i just did. it was waaaay better than web-ferret (which sucked) and was easier to use than Yahoo.
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Haha, really? What kind of geek are you?
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 07:07 AM

my dad told me about it. At the time, i was an altavista guy. That changed pretty soon thereafter.
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 07:48 AM

humm i dont remember.....been so long now
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 08:06 AM

noseeme, on Mar 14 2005, 02:09 PM, said:

Haha, really? What kind of geek are you?
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i'm one of those geeks that people are scared of in case i 'word' them to death. i said 'word' not bore.... :lol:
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 09:10 AM

Hmm, I think my school janator told me about it back in the day when I was in 8th grade. Than I experenced love at first sight, and said bye to altavista :P

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Posted 14 March 2005 - 09:17 AM

word of mouth... in person...
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 09:22 AM

Don't exactly remember, but I do remember that I used to be an Altavista user. Never used Yahoo too much back then, and I still don't (besides email)
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Posted 14 March 2005 - 10:54 AM

i almost definitely remember hearinbg about it on some news article or something. Don't remember where, but I was a AV user before, and this blew it away. Later I remember hearing that HotBot was supposed to be better...it wasn't....it wasn't even good. Anyhoo, google is pretty much all i've ever used since i found it.
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