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Google's Past Homepage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the call-huey-lewis-and-go-back-in-time dept.

kreativemind writes "I took a peek at WayBackMachine.com and found Google's first website. This was very interesting as I also discovered the founders (Larry & Sergey) eGroups board where they wrote about Google's startup site. Also found the "We Moved" site from Stanford."

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  1. Re:Back then... by Slack3r78 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the most interesting thing about this is how similar the original page is to today's Google. Guess it goes to show they really hit on the right thing pretty early on as far as the site's interface goes.

  2. News?? by pete19 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Bah... I saw that in 1998...

    Does everything related to Google get on the frontpage now?

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  3. Of course... by youknowmewell · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because Slashdot doesn't have enough Google stories as it is.

  4. Re:hhmm.... by PHP+Addict · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's interesting to see how everyone here is complaining how this is news, yet the site is /.'ed none-the-less. hmmmmmm...

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  5. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wow you haven't been around slashdot for very long. Everyone knows that once the spring/summer start news generally isn't very good. This has to do with the fact that the profs and bussiness people are all going on vacation. It also has to do with the fact that the summer is just slower and people are out doing things, like going outside. So news for nerds slows down as the universities and companies slow down. Don't worry it gets better in September and thats only 4 months of crappy news away.
    Cheers

  6. Re:I Still Remember by baadger · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still there may be hope on the horizon.

    "In fact generally we focus on the next generation of Google's crawling and indexing technology. We've got hard-core statisticians pondering how to measure search quality more accurately, and a slightly nutty project that we think might revolutionize the way that we organize and search structured information." ...and of course their aquisition of TrustRank.

  7. Re:How is this news? by Fwonkas · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How did that turn into a multi million dollar company? Seriously. That original page looks worse than what a 5th grader can program in HTML.

    I'm guessing that they offered some sort of service or something that sort of made up for their basic HTML.

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  8. You're right by Neurotoxic666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, you just made me realise something.

    When you can't find something on Google, I mean REALLY CAN'T find it? After you've tried AGAIN 3-4 times with different words, will you really look elsewhere or just accept the fact that what you're looking for does not exist, because Google says so? I'm sure I'm not the only one doing the latter....

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