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Here’s something a bit fun. Google - to celebrate its tenth birthday - has reactivated one of its oldest stored databases. If you go to this page, you can do Google searches 2001 style.
Here’s what I came up for with the search string “Sarah Palin”:
Your search - “sarah palin” - did not match any documents.
Kevin Rudd shares the front page with an accountant and an academic engineer of the same name.
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Nice ‘do!
Heh!
And you reckon K-Rudd these days looks like the kid whose head you would have flushed down the loo at lunchtime…
A whole 671 hits for “Barack Obama” too (vs 83,100,000 today).
Ah, the good old days, when a search for Paris Hilton only gave results for a hotel in France!
Larvatus Prodeo:
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=%22larvatus+prodeo%22&start=0&sa=N
And “Australian blog” gets you two hits:
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22australian+blog%22&hl=en&sa=N&btnG=Search
And Crikey’s front page was full of candid snaps of an apparently drunk Bob Hawke:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011217185203/www.crikey.com.au/
The things you find on there!
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/103.html
“Julia Gillard looks like being a senator”
Hehe. Poetic Justice in 2007…
Great find, Benji.
Heh.
ZOMG! Oh noes!!! $1111!!!!
Results 1 - 10 of about 76,400 for blog. (0.01 seconds)
No lolcats
“I am aware of all internet traditions” gets zero results.
As does “two girls and a cup”.
However ‘”goatse” scores a massive 1,410 results.
O tempora, o mores. ( 3,670 results then, 761,000 results now)
238 results for pwned in 2001.
About 4,490,000 in 2008.
2001 - epic FAIL!
This could be another rare case of EPOCH FAIL!!!
Very little information available on Missy Higgins’ sexual orientation too.
So, how shit is the past eh?
I just love the decidedly low-fi nature of the 2001 web pages. Times new roman font. Glaring, block colours in background. Hilarious.
That wouldn’t have anything to do with they way Google archived the pages, would it?