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And yet Eric Schmidt says (2010)* we should change our name... Because everything is always kept https://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/google-ceo-eric-schmidt-

• simonblack 6y ago
  Not really, that information gradually gets bit-rot and evaporates away to nothingness as website after website gets old and vanishes. In the early days of the Internet, I often used to Google/AltaVista/Jeeves my own name. There used to be quite a few hits. Over the years, those old hits have just faded away.
  • Frenziefrenz 6y ago
    That doesn't necessarily mean they disappeared, although chances are probably better that they did than didn't. Google has increasingly started incorporating recency in how it ranks search results, so if it's more than a few years old it'll fade away from Google results regardless if it's still around or not.
    • simonblack 6y ago
      if it's more than a few years old it'll fade away from Google results regardless if it's still around or not. If you can't find it, it's effectively the same as if it doesn't exist.
• quercusa 6y ago
  In 2001, it was Scott McNealy : https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200108/df20010808.jpg https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200108/df20010808.jp... If you are not familiar with Dr. Fun: Don Knuth Finally Sells Out https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jp...