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."

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Your search - lolcats - did not match any document

[default luser]

PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO TEH FUTURE!!!!111

A world without LOLCATS is a world I don't want to live in!

Subtle political trolling

[Gizzmonic]

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!

Re:Subtle political trolling

[Sasayaki]

I don't know. Maybe Google will release their search results from 1898 as well? Then we could google "World War" and go- huh huh huh- no pages found! Life was so much simpler then without all this "Nazi this, Nazi that" being shoved down our throats by the media...

Re:Subtle political trolling

[SydShamino]

You jest, but this is again appropriately hilarious:
http://fury.com/google-circa-1960.php

Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum

[Anonymous Coward]

Keep in mind that it's also a world without /b/tards.

I'm just sayin'...

Re:Weird!

[LSD-OBS]

She only took on her human form around 2003.

I, for one, fear our ancient reptilian overlords!

Re:wow...some growth

[Gat0r30y]

thats not just growth - that is genuine progress.

Re:This is fucking cool

[cortesoft]

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

Re:This is fucking cool

[Daimanta]

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]

Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum

[Anonymous Coward]

newfag.

Nice!

[Anonymous Coward]

Your search - "department of homeland security" - did not match any documents.

Oh make it so again magic eight ball!

(me cries)

Re:Nice to see what's missing

[Yvan256]

I searched for 9/11 and it gave me 0.818181818181818

Re:Random searches

[nizo]

The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001.

Or not:

"penis enlargement": (107,000) 7,410,000

Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum

[dedazo]

and piracy were so much harder back then:

It wasn't, it just happened on FTP servers and USENET.

I'd tell you more but I have to to change my dentures.

Re:Random searches

[nizo]

Oh and I found one:
y2k bug : (281,000) 274,000

Re:This is fucking cool

[FornaxChemica]

Google's algorithm sucks. This company has no future, 2001 will see the end of them.

Re:Random searches

[pablomme]

...that shows you how truly wonderful the world is now compared to the world of 2008

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