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Happy Birthday Google! The world’s most used search engine turns 25

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Google turned 25 this week.(ABC News: Ben Sveen)

It's officially been 25 years since the inception of Google, the world's most used search engine. 

Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval at RMIT University, told Sammy J that the rise of web search transformed the way we receive information.

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Melbourne, Human Interest
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