In honour of Google ’s 10th natal day * , the hunt locomotive has post a interpretation of itselfas it appeared in January 2001(the early available index ) . It was a simpler meter : only 1,326,920,000 vane pages were in the forefinger . Today it ’s over 8 billion , though Googlestopped revealing the precise numberin 2005 , saying the forefinger size was " nonmeaningful . " Doing a hunt on the 2001 - era indicant reveals how much the internet has changed since then . For one affair , there ’s nomental_flossblog ! There is a mention of the mag in a DukeChroniclepiece , though the tie-in itself is broken . ( We ’d have to wait for roughlyAugust 2002to see amental_flossweb presence . ) Searches for today ’s staple websites like Flickr , Twitter , and Digg twist up mountain of interesting results , but of form the service themselves did n’t exist yet .
Because the index is so one-time , many links are broken . Google has helpfully included a link on each search result to " View previous version on the Internet Archive , " which looks up that Thomas Nelson Page on theWayback Machine . ( By the way , if you ’re unfamiliar with the Wayback Machine orArchive.org , please read this– it ’s an amazing resourcefulness for all net user . )
Gosearch for yourselfand see how things have changed in seven years . Note that the index number will only be available for one calendar month , so get it while it ’s , uh , hot and very stale ?
- = There ’s some argumentation about when Google ’s birthdate actually was . Everyone accord that it was in September 1998 , butGoogle ’s not saying which 24-hour interval it was . A will to Google ’s awesomeness : they celebrate " depending on when people finger like having bar . "
