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		joemi on Dec 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trying to get a bunch of GPUs on Google Cloud Back when they were just a search engine, they added HUGE value. Search was really terrible before them, and when using google for the first time after using all the other search engines, it really felt like actual magic.

kalleboo on Dec 2, 2022 [–]

Google Maps also felt like magic when it came out and you could just drag to scroll vs the slow click-click-click of Mapquest.

Similarly everyone was convinced Gmail was an April Fool's joke when they gave you 1 GB of storage when everyone else just gave you 3 MB.

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