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Google reopens 2001 search index

Google relaunched its 2001 search index last week to provide a light-hearted look at the growth of web use over the past seven years.

To mark its 10th birthday, Google has made available its oldest readily accessible search index at www.google.com/search2001.html for one month only, which users can browse the comparatively tiny search engine, including links to websites as they appeared in 2001.

A statement on the Google site said: “The world wide web and the world have both changed a lot since 2001. Searching Google’s 2001 index illustrates both points in what we think is a pretty entertaining way.

“If you searched on ‘Michael Phelps’ in 2001 for instance, you were probably looking for the scientist, not the swimmer. ‘Ipod’ didn’t refer to a music player, and ‘YouTube’ didn’t refer to much of anything.”

And ‘bdaily’ isn’t on there at all…

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .