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Google, Circa 2001

Posted by timothy on from the blast-in-the-present dept.

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."

2 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Nice to see what's missing by Martin+Blank · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, that is from a grand jury indictment, and a statement in an indictment isn't necessarily a proven fact. That it got past the grand jury suggests little more than that the grand jury believed the chances of it were high enough to turn over to trial; without transcripts, there's no way of knowing how strong their belief may have been.

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  2. Wikipedia -- 42143900% Increase in Results! by donniejones18 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google Jan 2001:
    Results 1 - 10 of about 681 for wikipedia. (0.01 seconds)

    Google today:
    Results 1 - 10 of about 287,000,000 for wikipedia. (0.07 seconds)

    That's a 42143900% increase in results! :)