I remember vividly when I first learned about Google, too. In the New Yorker, of all places. But then I was a lit grad student at the time and thinking a lot ab

I remember vividly when I first learned about Google, too. In the New Yorker, of all places. But then I was a lit grad student at the time and thinking a lot about ways to optimize research. And I was similarly underwhelmed by the competency of existing search engines (anybody remember Northern Lights?) As a matter fact (5 minutes of tortuous Google search later...), here the article is: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2000/05/29/2000_05_29_088_TNY_LIBRY_000020933?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2000/05/29/2000_05_29_088_T... A neat little time capsule.