Google has become 19 and below you will see the most popular search engine in the world, through the images in the Wayback Machine for Google.com from birth to today.
The company was founded in 1998 and although Aerosmith's "I Do not Wanna Miss Miss A Thing" was at the top of Billboard chatrs, there was not much to see:
It's the original screenshot of Google.com at web.archive.org:
The first real one version με σελίδα της Goοgle.com ήρθε αργότερα και μια νέα εποχή αναζήτησης με κείμενο και σύντομα ένα ανόητο όνομα businesss turned into a verb. Google it.
Google the 1999
The year was 2000 the search engine was no longer beta.
Things do not change much for a few years until the Google passed her "adolescence". Check out the font and punk-rock coloring on picture of 2003.
The image above has a strange symbol next to the colorful text "Google." "TM" added.
Things do not change much, for Google.com, for the next 7 years. Nowhere, 2010, throws the bomb:
The "radical" redesign destroyed the preconceived notions that "change cannot be subtle."
The beauty of Google.com over the years seems to be simplicity. The page always had a subtractive line which grew over time.
Evidence;
As you noticed the logic of Keep it simple stupid which adopts Arch Linux, is implemented fine by the biggest search engine that exists today.
KISS fits in perfectly with Content is the King and Google undoubtedly has it. So the company does not seem to need impressive UIs that attract the visitor's interest.
The Brand Name is perfectly recognizable, even the home page uses a simple Verdana font on its logo.