Wednesday 1 October 2008

Google Search 2001


Google put its old 2001 index online for everyone to play with. The World Wide Web and the world have both changed a lot since 2001.

If you searched on 'Michael Phelps' in 2001 for instance, you were probably looking for the scientist, not the swimmer, 'ipod' didn't refer to a music player, and 'youtube' didn't refer to much of anything.

2 comment(s):

william said...

Now, someone needs to make a mashup that converts these results into proper archive.org links, so you can see the old pages too.
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williamgeorge
Search Engine Optimization

Anonymous said...

They did! Under the results where you'd expect to see "cached."