jrockway 18 years ago

When I search for Perl, it seems like nothing has changed. When I click through to Perl.com and look at the archived articles, they look like they all could have been written today.

I'm not sure what this says about anything, but it is interesting.

  • staunch 18 years ago

    I'm pretty sure this is meaningless as well, but interesting:

    Then

      2,730,000 for asp code
  2,450,000 for java code
  1,730,000 for php code
  1,710,000 for perl code
  276,000 for python code
  224,000 for lisp code
  89,600 for ruby code
  9,580 for erlang code

    Now

      64,700,000 for php code
  25,700,000 for asp code
  15,500,000 for java code
  1,540,000 for perl code
  1,390,000 for erlang code
  1,160,000 for python code
  711,000 for ruby code
  484,000 for lisp code
    • jrockway 18 years ago

      There are actually fewer Perl sites now. That is sad :(

jbenz 18 years ago

"Your search - youtube - did not match any documents."

What a crazy world we lived in.

  • technoguyrob 18 years ago

    Some other fun ones:

    Your search - "sarah palin" - did not match any documents. Makes me anxious that she is a vice presidential contender.

    Top result for "iraq war" is a historical note on the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).

    Top result for "myspace" is an online storage portal (a whopping free 50MB).

    "LCD" refers to a webcomic, not an LCD display.

    Top result for "china" is a web page whose title is "New Page 1".

    And of course ycombinator is nowhere to be heard of. :)

    • ericwaller 18 years ago

      I thought this one was pretty interesting:

      osama bin laden - excerpt from the first hit:

      Bin Laden has vowed to wage a jihad or holy war against U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia because of U.S. support for Israel. He broadened his threat to include all Americans, military and civilian, in the Middle East.

      and

      The terrorist said, "We predict a black day for America."

BrandonM 18 years ago

The fifth result when searching for "wikipedia" has the text:

"WikiPedia is a new wiki site I have set up at http://www.wikipedia.com/ . WikiPedia is an offshoot project of NuPedias OpenContent encyclopedia project."

There are only 681 results (3 pages), and all of the Internet Archive links go nowhere.

agotterer 18 years ago

Hmm. This doesn't work for me. A search for anything takes me to a 404 not found.

  • zandorg 18 years ago

    That's because of the web's ever-popping foam of bubbles, to quote Ted Nelson. The web's main feature is a lack of permanency, because people either unpublish, have to pay for hosting which becomes economically unviable, or host for 'free' until the free host gets bought out and deleted.

    • zandorg 18 years ago

      Hang on, same result for me. You mean there's a 404 to the search query, not the resulting link. Odd!

  • jasonlbaptiste 18 years ago

    i get the same thing. going to try reseting safari and using it there. maybe something is conflicting??

tlrobinson 18 years ago

It's got the website I made in high school, but the Internet Archive only has the text of the main page, no images :(

I wish they had my very first "webpage" from elementary school, which was just one of those AltaVista or GeoCities things where you fill out a form (basically the predecessor of social network "profiles", without the network)

Haskell 18 years ago

1. Searching in 2001 for: altavista google, the 3rd result is: "AltaVista launches Google competitor"

2. Searching in 2008 for: google facebook, the 3rd result is: Google’s Response to Facebook: "Maka-Maka"

If history can teach something, Google's future is doomed. :)

pius 18 years ago

Impressive . . . they decided to forgo search driven ad revenue for the day.

truebosko 18 years ago

Man 2001, feels so long ago. That was the year I finally got internet at home, and a few months later I built my first website on Geocities. Damn you Google, making us feel nostalgic.

timcederman 18 years ago

iPhone?

http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=iphone&hl=en&#...

rudyfink 18 years ago

Searching for "financial bailout" brings up links on the Russian bailout question years ago. Everything old is new again!

nuclear_eclipse 18 years ago

Search for "Bush":

"George W. Bush is running for President of the United States to keep the country prosperous."

"George W Bush -- not a crackhead!"

proximo 18 years ago

There is an older index. Why does no one use The Way Back Machine?

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.ed...

Perhaps this is when Google became google.com?

  • kylec 18 years ago

    Google's index is the crawling information they gathered. You can actually do searches and get results as they would have been 7 years ago. The WayBack Machine just caches the HTML pages and would not provide this functionality.

    • zandorg 18 years ago

      Briefly in 2004, the Wayback Machine provided a search engine for its entire archive, back to about 1997. This is now gone. Probably Amazon didn't like it (Amazon owns Alexa and thus controls the WM caching).

mattmaroon 18 years ago

Wow, I was ungoogleable back then.

abl 18 years ago

google! - "yahoo!" wanna-be? :)

lst 18 years ago

Bootstrapping it: 3,780,000 versus 2,860,000,000