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Google brought back oldest available index for their 10th birthday
- pius 18y agoImpressive . . . they decided to forgo search driven ad revenue for the day.
- iamdave 18y agoCall it irony, but I think this produces higher quality results than paid results. Interesting little quirk, search for 'gmail' and look at the results. Nostalgia of proportions only a true geek would appreciate.
- pius 18y agohaha. You know, I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion. I didn't realize that they'd literally gone back to the old search index . . . I thought it was just a superficial change.
- bootload 18y ago"... I didn't appreciate the magnitude of what they did until trying out your suggestion ..." Try "Al-Qaeda". The index is pegged at ~= 9mth prior to 911. I know it's of questionable taste but it's an interesting exercise to see what public information google indexed. Or try http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=pixar+Wall.e http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=pixar+Wa...
- staunch 18y agohttp://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Osama+Bin+Laden%22&hl=en&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Osama+Bin+Laden... Totally interesting.
- bootload 18y ago"... Bin+Laden... Totally interesting ..." Bin Laden is interesting all right. By '99 he was #456 on the FBI's most wanted list ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_1990s#Osama_bin_Laden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives,_... and now on the Tango watchlist ~ http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm
- jbenz 18y ago"Your search - youtube - did not match any documents." What a crazy world we lived in.
- technoguyrob 18y agoSome other fun ones: Your search - "sarah palin" - did not match any documents. Makes me anxious that she is a vice presidential contender. Top result for "iraq war" is a historical note on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988). Top result for "myspace" is an online storage portal (a whopping free 50MB). "LCD" refers to a webcomic, not an LCD display. Top result for "china" is a web page whose title is "New Page 1". And of course ycombinator is nowhere to be heard of. :)
- ericwaller 18y agoI thought this one was pretty interesting: osama bin laden - excerpt from the first hit: Bin Laden has vowed to wage a jihad or holy war against U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia because of U.S. support for Israel. He broadened his threat to include all Americans, military and civilian, in the Middle East. and The terrorist said, "We predict a black day for America."
- abl 18y agomeanwhile: http://web.archive.org/web/20010415022831/cwn.uchicago.edu/2000w/02.17/news/obama.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010415022831/cwn.uchicago.edu/2...
- pchristensen 18y agoHa! Joel on Software was at http://joel.editthispage.com/ http://joel.editthispage.com/
- proximo 18y agoThere is an older index. Why does no one use The Way Back Machine? http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.edu/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.ed... Perhaps this is when Google became google.com?
- kylec 18y agoGoogle's index is the crawling information they gathered. You can actually do searches and get results as they would have been 7 years ago. The WayBack Machine just caches the HTML pages and would not provide this functionality.
- zandorg 18y agoBriefly in 2004, the Wayback Machine provided a search engine for its entire archive, back to about 1997. This is now gone. Probably Amazon didn't like it (Amazon owns Alexa and thus controls the WM caching).
- agotterer 18y agoHmm. This doesn't work for me. A search for anything takes me to a 404 not found.
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- zandorg 18y agoThat's because of the web's ever-popping foam of bubbles, to quote Ted Nelson. The web's main feature is a lack of permanency, because people either unpublish, have to pay for hosting which becomes economically unviable, or host for 'free' until the free host gets bought out and deleted.
- zandorg 18y agoHang on, same result for me. You mean there's a 404 to the search query, not the resulting link. Odd!
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agoi get the same thing. going to try reseting safari and using it there. maybe something is conflicting??
- jrockway 18y agoWhen I search for Perl, it seems like nothing has changed. When I click through to Perl.com and look at the archived articles, they look like they all could have been written today. I'm not sure what this says about anything, but it is interesting.
- staunch 18y agoI'm pretty sure this is meaningless as well, but interesting: Then 2,730,000 for asp code 2,450,000 for java code 1,730,000 for php code 1,710,000 for perl code 276,000 for python code 224,000 for lisp code 89,600 for ruby code 9,580 for erlang code Now 64,700,000 for php code 25,700,000 for asp code 15,500,000 for java code 1,540,000 for perl code 1,390,000 for erlang code 1,160,000 for python code 711,000 for ruby code 484,000 for lisp code
- jrockway 18y agoThere are actually fewer Perl sites now. That is sad :(
- BrandonM 18y agoThe fifth result when searching for "wikipedia" has the text: "WikiPedia is a new wiki site I have set up at http://www.wikipedia.com/ http://www.wikipedia.com/ . WikiPedia is an offshoot project of NuPedias OpenContent encyclopedia project." There are only 681 results (3 pages), and all of the Internet Archive links go nowhere.
- gojomo 18y agoSome differences in how the Google index and IA crawls handled redirects and canonicalization may make it a little harder to click-through to the archives Wikipedia pages, but they're available. Try: http://web.archive.org/web/2001/www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?Wikipedia http://web.archive.org/web/2001/www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?W... ...or... http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?* http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wik... ...or to see pages beginning 'J'... http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?J* http://web.archive.org/web/2001*/http:/www.wikipedia.com/wik... [FYI: I work at the Internet Archive.]
- rudyfink 18y agoSearching for "financial bailout" brings up links on the Russian bailout question years ago. Everything old is new again!
- timcederman 18y agoiPhone? http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iphone&hl=en&sa=N&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iphone&hl=en&#...
- staunch 18y ago4th hit "Cisco - iPhone Support" Explains the settlment: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/22/business/cisco.php http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/22/business/cisco.php
- serhei 18y ago10th hit: > iPhone > The revolutionary iPhone is a fully integrated telephone and Internet device with a built-in touch screen to bring the world of the Internet into your home ... > http://www.uioa.com/productcatalog/ http://www.uioa.com/productcatalog/ - View old version on the Internet Archive Wait, what??
- markbao 18y agoFor those of you who have seen Startup.com: http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=govWorks http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=govWorks also, http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=webvan http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=webvan and http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=kozmo http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=kozmo
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- mixmax 18y agoI actually got results when searching for myself :-) What a bunch of crap I wrote back then...
- blogimus 18y agoal qaeda turns up 1,670 results back in 2001, (Today is 20,400,000) and the first hit is for a Frontline episode on "Who is Bin Laden?" http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=al+qaeda&hl=en&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=al+qaeda&hl=en...
- Haskell 18y ago1. Searching in 2001 for: altavista google, the 3rd result is: "AltaVista launches Google competitor" 2. Searching in 2008 for: google facebook, the 3rd result is: Google’s Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka" If history can teach something, Google's future is doomed. :)
- mattmaroon 18y agoWow, I was ungoogleable back then.
- visakhcr 18y agoSearch for iPod gives this as 1st result: " Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System" http://www.aperta.co.uk/ipod.htm http://www.aperta.co.uk/ipod.htm But the 3rd result is interesting...Page title - 'iPod' !! http://www.vrex.com/apps/html/ipod.html http://www.vrex.com/apps/html/ipod.html (page cannot be found..anyone knows what is this iPod?)
- abl 18y agogoogle! - "yahoo!" wanna-be? :)
- krishna2 18y agoSearch for "SEO" brings up this : http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=seo&hl=en&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=seo&hl=en&... First hit : Welcome to the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Web Site They practically later defined that market.
- tlrobinson 18y agoIt's got the website I made in high school, but the Internet Archive only has the text of the main page, no images :( I wish they had my very first "webpage" from elementary school, which was just one of those AltaVista or GeoCities things where you fill out a form (basically the predecessor of social network "profiles", without the network)
- slater 18y agoWant to buy or sell a used copy of On Lisp? http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=%22Paul+Graham%22&btnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=%22Paul+...
- truebosko 18y agoMan 2001, feels so long ago. That was the year I finally got internet at home, and a few months later I built my first website on Geocities. Damn you Google, making us feel nostalgic.
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoSearch for "Bush": "George W. Bush is running for President of the United States to keep the country prosperous." "George W Bush -- not a crackhead!"
- byrneseyeview 18y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20010413020517/www4.enron.com/corp/jobs/ http://web.archive.org/web/20010413020517/www4.enron.com/cor... "From stock options to 3 weeks of vacation--all the benefits that Enron employees enjoy."
- aswanson 18y agoThe only product in our roundup that is solely vendor-hosted, Viaweb Store 3.0 shines brightly amid the e-commerce crowd. You don't have to install any ... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=viaweb&hl=en&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=viaweb&hl=en&#...
- DaniFong 18y agoWeapons of Mass Destruction, Iraq: http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=Weapons+of+Mass+Destruction+Iraq&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=Weapons+of+Mass+De... I have to say, for what it's worth, this data looked pretty worrisome...
- lst 18y agoBootstrapping it: 3,780,000 versus 2,860,000,000