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Google Images (2001)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: Draw 1 card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 2001
Google's image search, showing a thumbnail for each match and a link to the page the picture came from.
Google built it because the most popular query it had seen was for the green Versace dress Jennifer Lopez wore in February 2000. By 2010 it indexed over 10 billion images.
In 2001: Introduced on 12 July, built by engineer Huican Zhu and product manager Susan Wojcicki.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2001 page.
Put it on your site
Run Google Images, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2001. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2001, then plays a short scene. Want Google Images in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
