Jennifer Lopez’s dress he wore at Grammy 2000 awards and inspired the creation of Google images
In February 2000, Jennifer Lopez -A 55 years of age- appeared on the red carpet of the Grammy Awards With a Versace green dress, turning it into the most commented topic of the moment.
The impact was such that the more popular consultation that Google had seen until theninspiring the creation of Google images.
Jennifer Lopez’s dress at Grammy 2000 awards was Google’s most popular consultation
Jennifer Lopez He attended the Grammy 2000 Awards With a green dress from Versace, with a neckline that came almost to the navel, a Transparent chiffon fabric with tropical leaf print and bamboo.
Jennifer Lopez Dress Awards Grammy 2000 (Shuttersock)
That look caused stirnot only for the style, but because it became the most commented issue of the moment.
Google searches in the 2000s were: “Jennifer Lopez Grammy”being the most popular consultation that Google had seen until then.
Jennifer Lopez’s dress at Grammy 2000 awards inspired the creation of Google Images
Although the search for Jennifer Lopez’s dress in Grammy 2000 awards was the most popular, at that time, Google only offered text results with linksand people did not easily find the photos of the dress.
This showed the team of Google They needed one more direct way to show images and facilitate the search for users.
According to Eric Schmidtformer Google CEO, this phenomenon was the final impulse for the team, led by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, started working on a Image search function.
It was so Google Images was created in July 2001with an initial file of 250 million images:
“After all, people wanted more than only text and this became evident after the Grammy Awards in 2000 (…) Then, Google Images Search was born.”
Eric Schmidt
Jennifer Lopez Dress Awards Grammy 2000 (Getty images)
It is important to clarify that, the creation of Google images It was not an idea of the morning.
Cathy Edwardsdirector of engineering and product of Google imagesHe explained that an image search tool was already being considered, but they had no one available to do so.
It was until the summer of 2000 that, Huican Zhutogether with Susan Wojcickicurrent CEO ofYouTubethey worked to launch Google images in July 2001.
