{"id":4396,"date":"2003-09-10T11:22:34","date_gmt":"2003-09-10T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2003-09-10T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2003-09-10T18:22:34","slug":"thats_middle_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/10\/thats_middle_ag.html","title":{"rendered":"That’s middle-aged in Internet years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday, Google turned five years old<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I remember pre-Google days. Lots of difficult searches, multi-engine conslidators, and stuff like that. Google raised the bar, made Web searching easy and fast, and is generally nearly indispensible. At least to me.<\/p>\n

Huzzah for Google<\/a> — even if they are a bit zealous about their trademark<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday, Google turned five years old. I remember pre-Google days. Lots of difficult searches, multi-engine conslidators, and stuff like that. Google raised the bar, made Web searching easy and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1174,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/04\/searching_searc.html","url_meta":{"origin":4396,"position":0},"title":"Searching … searching …","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Oct-01 3:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Searching ... searching ... 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