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 Google.com screenshot on web.archive.org:
The first real version with 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". See the font and punk-rock coloring in the 2003 image.
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 Keep it simple stupid logic that adopts Arch Linux, it is also a joy to apply from the largest search engine that exists today.
KISS fits perfectly with it Content is the King and Google undeniably has it. So the company doesn't seem to have a need for impressive UIs that grab the visitor's attention.
The Brand Name is perfectly recognizable, even the home page uses a simple Verdana font on its logo.
