Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ...
by akavel on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:59PM
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I still distinctly remember the moment of shock with the minimalism of their homepage at the time; compared to AltaVista jam-packed with ads and other stuff to the brim, seeing just the logo and the editbox on a plain white page made me startle and pause with some "Whaaat's going on???" and "This can't be true" feelings.
Re:Ask HN: What are some “10x” software product innovations ...
by thirdusername on Sunday March 21, 2021 @06:02AM
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It was so light weight that when they did user tests, the user didn’t start typing. They just waited there waiting for the rest to load. So they added the copyright notice in the footer. According to Marissa Mayer
Copyright never has to be declared, and I think in many ways Google is responsible for websites having copyright in footers not realising it’s not a legal requirement.
Aaahhh. The year Google launched, a friend and I were sitting next to each other, at our PCs. Both of us were techie types and into innovative stuff, although working in a software services bigco at the time.
I casually said to him: "I came across this new search engine a few days ago while browsing for interesting stuff. They say they are fast(er than others)."
Gave him the URL. He typed it in, ran a search, saw the results and the time, like 0.0x seconds or so. And muttered "That's fast".
It was Google.