One site was consistent though. Google came in first in each of my five searches. Not only did it come in first but it blew away the competition.

PC Magazine, November 17, 1999
Google is again on PC Magazine's Top 100 Web Sites list.

A fast, user-friendly search engine that doesn't assault us with thousands of irrelevant citations may be the only thing that saves us from a lifetime of infopsychosis.

The reason why all those Valley hotshots are going gaga over Google is because the company has a search technology that is far better than anything else out there.

... it's a minimalistic triumph -- three years ago the original competitive field of search engines staged a mass exodus, leaving behind the pursuit of better search results and entering a revenue desert in search of a promised land of sticky services. Now it's time for the experts.

... two 26-year-old PhD candidates from Stanford University formally launched what many experts consider to be the most powerful search tool on the Net, called Google.

Searching on the Web just got easier -- with the addition of a new feature at the search service Google that hunts down related info. Whenever you find a citation that looks interesting, just click on the GoogleScout link and you'll get a list of associated stuff.

Google, Netscape's search partner, has some very impressive technology, said analyst Barry Parr of International Data Corp.

My first choice these days when trying to find something on the Internet is a tiny little site called Google. Google prioritizes search results by how many other pages it has found that link to the page in question, and thus can roughly judge how important or authoritative the rest of the people making up the Internet consider that page to be. The results have been consistently good enough to make me switch.

...when I want to quickly get to the most authoritative sites on a topic, I use a search engine called Google.

This search engine uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more than a billion hyperlinks on the web, to return high-quality search results so you don't have to sift through junk.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two ... Stanford graduates with a great idea and a wacky name. Google www.google.com) indexes Web pages using an ingenious algorithm which ranks a site on the basis of who links to it.

Google is a new search engine that takes advantage of the cyberspace community's collective expertise. Just as you trust the links on a really good site to get you to other good pages, Google crawls the Web scooping up hyperlinks and uses them to figure out how important a page is by who is pointing to it.

...the Net's hottest new search engine, which) draws on feedback from the Web itself to deliver more relevant answers to customer queries.

Despite the remarkable success of portals built around search engines, there has been little published research on improving Internet search results. Page and Brin stepped into this breach with Google.

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