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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
A world without LOLCATS is a world I don't want to live in!
Man is the animal that laughs.
And occasionally whores for Karma.
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!
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
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.
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)
I did that and EVERYTHING was related to the 11th of September!
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
well, not in English, but here it is: "cze do szwecji" had 2 results in 2001 and 1 in 2008 :-)
Please contact me on gold star transfer :)
Google's algorithm sucks. This company has no future, 2001 will see the end of them.
Before LOLCATS...
When no one yet knew NOM NOM NOM...
It was the first golden age of internet memes.
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
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.