See if you can catch the glaring omission in this story about search engines from NPR

back in 1999.

Think of names like Yahoo, Excite, Likos, Altavist, a hotpot?

Yeah, no Google.

In 1999, it was just an upstart, worth just a brief mention later in that segment, which

is incredible.

Because very soon after that, Google would be running circles around those competitors.

By 2002, just three years later, NPR, like the rest of the world, was already using it

as a verb.

There's even a term for it.

You Google there.

Google has come a long way from the company that was founded 25 years ago this week,

by two Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergei Brin.

My dorm room was the office, and Larry's dorm room was the data center.

He had all these computers, but I don't think.

Yeah, I don't think his roommate found it entertaining after the first day or so, because

they're loud and they have lots of fans and stuff.

That's Brin on WHYWY's Fresh Air back in 2003.

Even then, just five years into its existence, Google was a behemoth.

There's Larry Page on Fresh Air in that same 2003 interview.

For me, I guess my dad was a computer science professor, and I grew up with computers sort

of from age six, and I guess I had sort of an innate feeling that there was a lot you

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