Google Search Time Capsule From 2001

posted by Scott Beale on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Google 2001

To celebrate their 10th Anniversary, Google has temporarily restored their oldest search index from January 2001. Here’s the search results for “Laughing Squid”.

Thanks to Spacemonkey for the tip!

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this blog post was written by Scott Beale on Tuesday, September 30th, 2008


  1. Wow. That's super cool!

  2. Scott, did you keep archived versions of this site? If so, you should put them up! =)

    I've been “saving” old versions of my site since the 90s:

    http://www.alexis-barrera.com/bio.html

  3. I've been archiving the site, but those are archives are not online, so for now the Wayback Machine is the best way to see old versions.

  4. Yeah, I guess that works though sometimes they seem to miss whole chunks of history and pretty arbitrarily at that.

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