Google is 10 years old

Has search changed much from back then? How different are the search results and what did the web pages look like?

Google has released an insight into 2001 search results and what their system looked like.

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

It is great fun to see a more innocent version of the web. We might have a cleaner landscape but there were far fewer indexed pages 10 years ago. 1,326,920,000 pages indexed in 2001 compared to 8,000,000,000 pages indexed in 2008.

Here are a few 2001 search results to make you smile:

Credit Crunch

iPhone

facebook

3 mobile

put

Comments

[Thierry aime]

Search engine searches account for 50% of our Canadian shopping traffic and Google is definitely at the forefront of enabling individuals to research products within the purchase cycle.

Congratulations and much continued success to Google...

[Jo Lyall]

I will be out of the office starting 12/11/2009 and will not return until
16/11/2009.

I am out of the office for the rest of this week. You can contact Lucy on
02079694104 for anything urgent. Otherwise I will come back to you when I
return. Thanks

Jo

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