Google Takes You Back to 2001

Mental-floss reports that Google took its users back in time for its 10th birthday. You can now search an index from 2001 to see how things have changed. You can find the special search here.

In honor of Google's tenth birthday*, the search engine has posted a version of itself as it appeared in January 2001 (the earliest available index). It was a simpler time: only 1,326,920,000 web pages were in the index. Today it's over 8 billion, though Google stopped revealing the exact number in 2005, saying the index size was "meaningless." Doing a search on the 2001-era index reveals how much the web has changed since then.

Just like mental-floss we aren't in the 2001 index but our parent company WritersWrite.com is.

Posted on October 2, 2008

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Google Takes You Back to 2001