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!

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:Nice to see what's missing

[SEE]

Try al qaeda iraq.

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]

Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac HOLY CRAP

[aardwolf64]

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."

Re:Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac HOLY CRAP

[Anonymous Coward]

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."

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:Nice to see what's missing

[bill_mcgonigle]

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."

Re:This is fucking cool

[The Good Reverend]

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?

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:This is fucking cool

[FornaxChemica]

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