Grammy Awards: How Jennifer Lopez's Grammys 2000 dress invented Google Image Search

It was back in 2000 when Jennifer Lopez stepped out on Grammy red carpet in her jungle print Versace dress. This is how Google Ims actually came into existence and here's proof of it. In 2000, Google search results were just limited to simple ps with text but ever since people began searching for On Floor Singer's green dress that year, Google was forced to introduce this feature for all.

After Lopez was minated for Best Dance Recording for Waiting for Tonight, she showed up on red carpet of Grammys in a jungle-green Versace dress that had a plunging neckline reaching all way to her belly.

Jennifer Lopez's Grammys 2000 dress invented Google Im Search

As per New York Times, after Jennifer made a glamorous appearance on st, her fans worldwide just wanted to have every glimpse of her dress and actor's red carpet look. As former Google CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt wrote on Project Syndicate in 2015, "People wanted more than just text. This first became apparent after  Grammy Awards 2000, where Jennifer Lopez wore a green dress that, well, caught world’s attention." He continued, "At time, it was most popular search query we had ever seen. But we had surefire way of getting users exactly what y wanted: J­Lo wearing that dress. Google Im Search was born."

'It was t overnight but Lopez was definitely impetus': Cathy Edwards

According to Cathy Edwards, director of engineering and product for Google Ims, "It was t overnight but Lopez was definitely impetus which is a truth." She furr added, "it is also t case that this happened and next day we said, Oh, we should build an im search engine!" adding, "everyone re at time was like, Of course, we need to build an im search engine, but y weren’t sure how much priority to give it."

She stated that when Lopez's Grammys dress garnered massive attention, Cathy said that it became crystal clear that this was important." Later, as per GQ, Cathy stated that dress became an evergreen search for Google. She said, "People are still doing queries for ‘Jennifer Lopez green dress,’ ‘Jennifer Lopez jungle print dress,’ ‘Jennifer Lopez Grammys dress,’ [that] sort of thing."

20 years later, Cathy ted, "I think y knew that information was extraordinarily powerful, and that democratizing information in this way, organizing it and making it useful, making it accessible, was going to be powerful. But I think it’s hard to predict level of impact that search and Internet and Google has had on world. I think everyone’s a bit surprised by that."

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