> using Google for search in 2000 and being amazed at how much better the results were than AltaVista and Yahoo Search.

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.