Happy birthday
Google!!! It seems like only yesterday we were still stuck in a world of only using Yahoo, Hotbot, Alta-Vista (gotta love the audio search), Lycos, and so many others that wanted to be meta-search engines. But you came along.
The interesting thing is I actually use google.de about as much as I use google.com these days.
Seriously though, I love google, they are up there with Apple as one of the few companies I actually DO like despite my hatred of capitalism and consumerism.
So yes, Google turns 9 today for those wondering.