Decided to dig deep in my mail archives to see what my first contact was with Google-folk after reading @116509592231017933209 post.
Earliest was search integration on redhat.com (early 2000), back then http://
Lots of people moved on including Ray Sidney, Samir Kothari, Harry Cheung, Howard Jacobson, Rachael Kutras...
The two still here are @112983450704233067709 and @111898143234484272777
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