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Google goes back to the future

By Kim on October 2, 2008

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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17 responses to “Google goes back to the future”

  1. dk.au
    dk.au
    October 2, 2008 at 12:20 pm |

    Nice ‘do! 😉

  2. Kim
    Kim
    October 2, 2008 at 12:31 pm |

    Heh!

  3. Alex on the Bus
    Alex on the Bus
    October 2, 2008 at 12:35 pm |

    And you reckon K-Rudd these days looks like the kid whose head you would have flushed down the loo at lunchtime…

  4. wizofaus
    wizofaus
    October 2, 2008 at 12:36 pm |

    A whole 671 hits for “Barack Obama” too (vs 83,100,000 today).

  5. Robin
    Robin
    October 2, 2008 at 12:51 pm |

    Ah, the good old days, when a search for Paris Hilton only gave results for a hotel in France!

  6. Kim
    Kim
    October 2, 2008 at 12:55 pm |

    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

  7. Kim
    Kim
    October 2, 2008 at 12:57 pm |

    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/

  8. Benji
    Benji
    October 2, 2008 at 4:53 pm |

    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…

  9. Liam
    Liam
    October 2, 2008 at 5:21 pm |

    Great find, Benji.

    Martin Ferguson – ex-ACTU President – is now the natural leader of the Left

    Heh.

  10. Mark
    Mark
    October 2, 2008 at 5:25 pm |

    ZOMG! Oh noes!!! $1111!!!!

  11. Katz
    Katz
    October 2, 2008 at 5:32 pm |

    Results 1 – 10 of about 76,400 for blog. (0.01 seconds)

  12. Mercurius
    Mercurius
    October 2, 2008 at 9:57 pm |

    No lolcats 🙁

  13. Nabakov
    Nabakov
    October 2, 2008 at 10:33 pm |

    “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)

  14. Mark
    Mark
    October 2, 2008 at 11:29 pm |

    238 results for pwned in 2001.

    About 4,490,000 in 2008.

    2001 – epic FAIL!

  15. FDB
    FDB
    October 3, 2008 at 9:16 am |

    This could be another rare case of EPOCH FAIL!!!

  16. FDB
    FDB
    October 3, 2008 at 9:18 am |

    Very little information available on Missy Higgins’ sexual orientation too.

    So, how shit is the past eh?

  17. Andos
    Andos
    October 3, 2008 at 9:55 am |

    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?