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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
Try al qaeda iraq.
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.
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."
newfag.
Your search - "department of homeland security" - did not match any documents.
Oh make it so again magic eight ball!
(me cries)
Results 1 - 10 of about 681 for wikipedia. (0.01 seconds).
but plagiarism
Results 1 - 10 of about 35,400 for bit torrent. (0.01 seconds)
and piracy were so much harder back then:
Now: Results 1 - 10 of about 264,000,000 for wikipedia. (0.27 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 67,500,000 for bit torrent. (0.07 seconds)
Prediction: The real iPhone killer is going to be sex robots from Japan. Think about it.
nothing (16,500,000) 750,000,000
cotton candy (100,000) 5,520,000
This just in: The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001. Shocking, I know. However, the most important search result, the one that shows you how truly wonderful the world is now compared to the world of 2008:
porn (4,490,000) 236,000,000
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
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."
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
This is odd, though:
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Sarah+Palin%22 ("Sarah Palin") returns no results for me, but http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=palin+Wasilla (palin Wasilla) returns quite a few, including many with the term "Sarah Palin" in them.
Any thoughts?
The most striking to me is Blackwater. Notice that back then Blackwater was basically just a huge gun range and training center for law enforcement and citizens. They really took advantage of the "growth opportunities" provided by 9/11.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
This is a useful tool, as well as being a bit of fun.
In addition to all the standard "wii gives no results!" posts, what I noticed, and what was nice to see when searching for a few things, was the absolute lack of blog/link spam everywhere. Searching for a couple of terms that I still search for now yielded 300 odd results - but 300 *relevant result*. Searching for the same thing with the 2008 engine gives me tens of thousands - but 90% of them are just pollution results. The 2001 engine actually kicked up a few "new" results for things that, while still technically available on the 2008 engine, are on page 152 of it - and so hence essentially lost and I have never seen them before.
It links in to what I have argued previously - fork search engines. A bleeding edge "just spidered" version for those who want to chase up-to-the-minute things - and a "stable" time-lag version that would defeat the point of spam (if a blog/link spamming campaign has to wait for a couple of years to get their search results in to the stable engine results then they are less likely to bother).
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
Digg: Yapima Digg (the poem)
Youtube: No results
Myspace: http://freediskspace.com/ also in 2nd is Myspace.com.au, a home improvement site.
Facebook: Environmental Science and Public Policy "facebook" on Harvard's website.
Twitter: A nature site? Even viewing the "archived" version takes me to the 2006 social networking site, so I'm just going by the title.
del.icio.us: No results
PS3: A news story discussing the PS3 circa the PS2 launch. Also, apparently Sony owned the domain name 'ps3.net'
Xbox 360: A site called "360Net," with people anticipating the original Xbox. Now defunct, apparently.
Wii: Williamette Industries, they make forest products supposedly. The other results are equally irrelevant.
Nice slice of pre-web 2.0 life.
Google's algorithm sucks. This company has no future, 2001 will see the end of them.
("Sarah Palin") returns no results for me, but (palin Wasilla) returns quite a few, including many with the term "Sarah Palin" in them. Any thoughts?
Yeah, I know exactly why this would be the case. Their search algorithm sucked back then (relative to now)... despite the fact that it was miles better than anything else.
:)
Remember when using alta vista, webcrawler, etc and EVERYTHING was a Boolean search (usually of way too many 'NOT's.
How we forget so quickly
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
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?
Really?
As a Debian user I enjoyed the time trek back to when Ubuntu had nothing to do with linux.
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=ubuntu&hl=en&btnG=Search
In the currently charged political climate, I could care less about the troll or flamebait mods anymore so I might as well as fun.