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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."

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  1. Re:Nice to see what's missing by SEE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Try al qaeda iraq.

  2. Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac HOLY CRAP by aardwolf64 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Search for: "fannie mae" "freddie mac" collapse

    Hit up the archive of the first link. It's Fred L. Smith, Jr.'s testimony before the House Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

    He warns that the current setup of those two lenders are working to destabilize the marketplace.

    From his testimony: "At best, this mixing of private and political incentives creates marketplace confusion; at worst, it leads to a serious misallocation of capital and an increasing risk for American taxpayers."

    1. Re:Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac HOLY CRAP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Search for: "fannie mae" "freddie mac" collapse

      Hit up the archive of the first link. It's Fred L. Smith, Jr.'s testimony before the House Banking Committee's Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Government Sponsored Enterprises.

      He warns that the current setup of those two lenders are working to destabilize the marketplace.

      From his testimony: "At best, this mixing of private and political incentives creates marketplace confusion; at worst, it leads to a serious misallocation of capital and an increasing risk for American taxpayers."

      From "http://web.archive.org/web/20010410165029/www.cagw.org/mediacenter/newsrel/search/00-03-09.htm"

      "If Freddie and Fannie continue their attempts to expand their reach into subprime and jumbo mortgages, there is a real danger of collapse."

  3. Re:Nice to see what's missing by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting, from #2:

    "In addition, al Qaeda reached an understanding with the government of Iraq that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq."

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