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Google Images (2006)
Ask it anything. Politely.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 6
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If played in round 5 or later, +3 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 6 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 2006
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 2006: It had passed 1 billion indexed images the year before.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2006 page.
Put it on your site
Run Google Images, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2006, 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.
