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Wow - way back in 2001, only a few years after Google launched in 1998,
the 2001 index only let you search through a mere 1,326,920,000 web
pages – and we can see that in 1999, Google had a Yahoo!-esque
exclamation mark. My how times have changed...
Had you forgotten that at one stage, Google was known as “Google!” and used a completely different font?
That font seems to come from Google circa-1999, but Google is bringing it back for old times’ sake. It’s a bit of a visual shock, so used are we all to seeing Google’s current logo.
To refresh your memory, take a peek at Google from 2001 for an instant visual reminder – the earliest web index Google still had available.
You’ll also be able to search through all those pages to see what a different world it was back then – as noted in Australian newspaper The Age, Paris Hilton was but a hotel in Paris, the Iraq war was primarily the Iran-Iraq conflict and the first Kevin Rudd to pop up was an American in the US, not our current Australian Prime Minister.
And at the time, many people were accessing Google search results not from Google itself, but from Yahoo!, which at the time had an option to buy Google – something it must have sorely regretted not taking up over the years.
One thing that has stayed consistent with Google’s front page is the colour scheme of the Google logo, while the simple, sparse layout is barely different today.
Of course, in 2008, Google has many, many more features and functions, but unlike the cluttered “portal” pages of old, Google has managed to keep its 2008 page looking very much like the 2001 version.
That said, there is iGoogle, giving portal lovers as much or as little Google on one page they could possibly want, but in 2001 all that was yet to come.
Indeed, 2001 was around the time of the first dot.com crash, and funnily enough, we are going through another economic crash as we speak.
Google’s 10th birthday page is a great place to visit, featuring a funky interactive timeline with all kinds of interesting factoids, as well as a link to the way Googlers see things evolving “10 years out” – by 2018.
Don’t forget, when you search through the Google of 2001, you can visit sites as they were then, too, all thanks to the “Internet Archive”. It’s a real trip – through time!
David Bass
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