Google's good old days
- 1 Oct 08, 08:37 GMT
Do you ever long for those good old days? The days when AOL and Time Warner merged? When Wikipedia was founded? When George Bush was sworn in as president and Tony Blair bagged the UK general election?
When Gladiator won best picture Oscar? When Bayern Munchen clinched the UEFA Champions League? When Beijing succeeded in its bid to host the 2008 Olympics? When Apple released the iPod and Microsoft released Windows XP? And when Google was awarded a patent, number 6,285,999, for the PageRank search algorithm used in their search engine?
The year was 2001... and if there is anything you miss about those times then Google wants to help you relive the experience.
Step back in time, to a simpler era when search was restricted to just 1,326,920,000 web pages.
Here's .
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Comment number 1.
At 1st Oct 2008, hackerjack wrote:The point is?
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Comment number 2.
At 1st Oct 2008, pigeonfriend wrote:Thank you for wasting a minute of my life...
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Comment number 3.
At 1st Oct 2008, Jedra101 wrote:Man, I have done some pointless things when I had a deadline to produce 'something', but this takes the biscuit!
Number 2 made a good comment, and 'number 2' just about sums up this piece of journalism!
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Comment number 4.
At 1st Oct 2008, nissim wrote:I am not that fast... thank you for wasting two minutes of my life
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Comment number 5.
At 1st Oct 2008, Jimmy James wrote:What is the point of this article? What an utter waste of bandwidth, time and money.
Come on Maggie, there's so much going on in the world, is this all you can come up with?
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Comment number 6.
At 1st Oct 2008, datafake wrote:I found this article quite interesting. I searched for 大象传媒 then viewed the old version of the site from 2001.
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Comment number 7.
At 1st Oct 2008, Geoff Realname wrote:Fun to enter "Sarah Palin" and get no results...
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Comment number 8.
At 1st Oct 2008, ny_shock wrote:Come on guys.... the article is not that bad. I think the title is misleading a bit but the point is that google brought as aniversary of its creation its oldest index available which is 2001. If you click on that button you'll sortof go back in time. Leave Maggie alone, okay digital hyenas?
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Comment number 9.
At 1st Oct 2008, djmikeyc wrote:Crikey, what is this? Youtube?
I remember 2001. I did my A-levels.
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Comment number 10.
At 1st Oct 2008, Alex wrote:Interesting searches:
- Osama bin Laden gets 45000 hits, as opposed to >9000000 today
- youtube returns no results
- iPod brings up the "Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System"
etc
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Comment number 11.
At 1st Oct 2008, Matthew wrote:@7 - try also a search for 'Youtube'!
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Comment number 12.
At 2nd Oct 2008, madwytch wrote:Google archive is old news...
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Comment number 13.
At 23rd Oct 2008, SheffTim wrote:OMG. I started using Google back in 1999. Did it really not have News, Maps, Images etc back in 2001, or have they been removed as part of the exercise?
Surprising how much the web has changed in just 7 yrs.
Try old and current Google in separate tabs and compare results for Tags, Blog, Web 2.0 or even `david cameron`.
And no Flickr, Digg, Technorati etc either; they didn`t exist back then. And it looks as if newspapers such as The Times & Telegraph didn`t have websites either.
I wonder how much the Web (and world) will change in the next 7 yrs?
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