Fri 10 Oct 2008
Google, in honour of their 10th anniversary, has released a 2001 version of their search index. This allows you to search the web as it was in January 2001.
It’s interesting to see just how much the web has changed. For example, searching iPod returns results for ‘Image Proof of Deposit Document Processing System’ and searching Youtube doesn’t return anything.
To try out the 2001 version of Google yourself click here. Note: if you want to see the old versions of websites as they appeared in 2001 then click on the ‘View old version on internet archive’ at the bottom of each result.
To read more about the release of the 2001 search index click here.