Google, Circa 2001 355
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."
Your search - lolcats - did not match any document (Score:5, Funny)
PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO TEH FUTURE!!!!111
A world without LOLCATS is a world I don't want to live in!
2001 called and wants its search engine back. (Score:2, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't help myself. Oblig.
Subtle political trolling (Score:4, Funny)
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!
Ugh (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and while we're at it, that's my lawn you're standing on.
Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum (Score:4, Funny)
Keep in mind that it's also a world without /b/tards.
I'm just sayin'...
Re:Weird! (Score:5, Funny)
She only took on her human form around 2003.
I, for one, fear our ancient reptilian overlords!
Re:wow...some growth (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:5, Funny)
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 [archive.org]
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:4, Funny)
Nice! (Score:4, Funny)
Your search - "department of homeland security" - did not match any documents.
Oh make it so again magic eight ball!
(me cries)
Lame! I submitted this earlier! (Score:3, Funny)
Search Google
teamhasnoi writes "Put some words in the box here [google.com] and watch how results for your search come up. Awesome!"
The old one was more polite. (Score:2, Funny)
In today's world, "Britany Spears" comes up with "Did you mean: britney spears?"
I get enough sass IRL, thanks a bunch.
Re:Subtle political trolling (Score:5, Funny)
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:This is fucking cool (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe a list of all the times Obama merely voted "present" in the Illinois State Legislature?
Re:One Thing Missing (Score:4, Funny)
I did that and EVERYTHING was related to the 11th of September!
Re:wow...some growth (Score:3, Funny)
Entering the keywords "porn" into it in 2001 [google.com] generates 4,490,000 hits vs 236,000,000 hits in
2008 [google.com]
We are much more highly sexed now then we were back then.
Re:Nice to see what's missing (Score:5, Funny)
I searched for 9/11 and it gave me 0.818181818181818
Re:Random searches (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
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 (Score:5, Funny)
Oh and I found one:
y2k bug : (281,000) 274,000
two girls (Score:1, Funny)
Your search - "2 girls 1 cup" - did not match any documents. [google.com]
Oh, how I long to yesteryear...
Re:Subtle political trolling (Score:5, Funny)
You jest, but this is again appropriately hilarious:
http://fury.com/google-circa-1960.php [fury.com]
Re:Weird! (Score:3, Funny)
Did the exhaust vent directly into the campervan? In which case, I sure hope they factored in the environmental cost of growing 68,000 lbs of doritos for the 18 month trip.
Re:Random searches (Score:3, Funny)
well, not in English, but here it is: "cze do szwecji" [google.com] had 2 results in 2001 and 1 in 2008 :-)
Please contact me on gold star transfer :)
And Paris Hilton (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Subtle political trolling (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:2, Funny)
Well thats why matt deamon hates palin from www.realchange.org/mccain.htm [archive.org]
Leonardo DiCaprio is "an androgynous wimp." -- McCain.
much nicer to find Michel Palin instead of the creationist nut job when searching for palin though
Re:Your search - lolcats - did not match any docum (Score:4, Funny)
Before LOLCATS...
When no one yet knew NOM NOM NOM...
It was the first golden age of internet memes [google.com].
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:2, Funny)
Its a conspiracy!!
Re:Random searches (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Nigerian Scam results (Score:4, Funny)
And spam [google.com] still meant just meat!
That is definitely a matter of opinion.
Re:This is fucking cool (Score:1, Funny)
Is that you Ballmer? Maybe you should get back to throwing chairs so you don't overexert yourself.