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Google, Circa 2001
An anonymous reader writes "If you have 10 minutes to spare, take a look at an archive that Google has posted to mark the company's 10th anniversary. The search engine and its results are based on data from 2001, but it's interesting to see what turns up when popular 2008 terms are entered. For instance, iPod generates a reference to Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System, and the 771 Barack Obama results centered around his duties as an Illinois State Senator."
PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO TEH FUTURE!!!!111
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The submitted article contains a subtle dig at Barack Obama, implying that he is unsuitable for the executive office because a primitive version of Google's PageRank algorithm only had 771 results.
I wonder how many results that same algorithm had for Theodore Roosevelt, 7 years before he became President? Few predicted his meteoric rise!
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Please stop misusing the word "circa." It should only be used to give approximate dates. It would have been just as easy to write "Google in 2001."
Oh, and while we're at it, that's my lawn you're standing on.
Keep in mind that it's also a world without /b/tards.
I'm just sayin'...
She only took on her human form around 2003.
I, for one, fear our ancient reptilian overlords!
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
thats not just growth - that is genuine progress.
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
Ahhhh, so she was the 2001 Foxy Boxing champion!
... and then they built the supercollider.
Awesome: "It was so Wasilla." Sarah Palin, Wasilla mayor, after officiating at a wedding at the local Wal-Mart store.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010306214613/www.alaskamagazine.com/stories/120199/ktob.html
Can you imagine her taking a state visit to Germany?
Reporter: How would you describe this state visit?
Palin: It was so Germany.
[Reporters in the room all scribling]
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
newfag.
Your search - "department of homeland security" - did not match any documents.
Oh make it so again magic eight ball!
(me cries)
In 2001 I sumbitted this:
Search Google
teamhasnoi writes "Put some words in the box here and watch how results for your search come up. Awesome!"
In 2001, a search for "Britany Spears" came up with "BRITANY SPEARS NAKED" as the second hit, agruably the desired result.
In today's world, "Britany Spears" comes up with "Did you mean: britney spears?"
I get enough sass IRL, thanks a bunch.
I wonder what a search for Barack Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden will bring up?
Maybe a list of all the times Obama merely voted "present" in the Illinois State Legislature?
I did that and EVERYTHING was related to the 11th of September!
Entering the keywords "porn" into it in 2001 generates 4,490,000 hits vs 236,000,000 hits in
2008
We are much more highly sexed now then we were back then.
I searched for 9/11 and it gave me 0.818181818181818
The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001.
Or not:
"penis enlargement": (107,000) 7,410,000
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
It wasn't, it just happened on FTP servers and USENET.
I'd tell you more but I have to to change my dentures.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Oh and I found one:
y2k bug : (281,000) 274,000
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Your search - "2 girls 1 cup" - did not match any documents.
Oh, how I long to yesteryear...
Did the exhaust vent directly into the campervan? In which case, I sure hope they factored in the environmental cost of growing 68,000 lbs of doritos for the 18 month trip.
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
well, not in English, but here it is: "cze do szwecji" had 2 results in 2001 and 1 in 2008 :-)
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returns some hotel in France.
Google's algorithm sucks. This company has no future, 2001 will see the end of them.
Well thats why matt deamon hates palin from www.realchange.org/mccain.htm
Leonardo DiCaprio is "an androgynous wimp." -- McCain.
much nicer to find Michel Palin instead of the creationist nut job when searching for palin though
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
Before LOLCATS...
When no one yet knew NOM NOM NOM...
It was the first golden age of internet memes.
Repton.
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Its a conspiracy!!
NO SIG
Wait... when is now, then?
For its 20th anniversary, Google brought back its index of 2008 for people to play with. Only this time there was the unexpected side effect that people could not only see the pages, but also post back from 2018.
Little did Google know that this breach of space-time would signify the collapse of the Universe by 2020.
PS, I'm posting this from an alternate Universe. I hope this doesn't mess th
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
And spam still meant just meat!
That is definitely a matter of opinion.
Is that you Ballmer? Maybe you should get back to throwing chairs so you don't overexert yourself.