Google 2001

[Greedo]

"In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001."

http://www.google.com/search2001.html

2001: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,670 for al qaeda.

2008: Results 1 - 10 of about 16,500,000 for al qaeda


2001: Results 1 - 10 of about 552 for war on terror.

2008: Results 1 - 10 of about 16,500,000 for war on terror.


Quite interesting!

 

[Bodhbh]

And Paris Hilton gives a bunch of links for hotel reservations

 

[domtyler]

2001: Results 1 - 1 of about 1 for cyclechat

2008: Results 1 - 10 of about 54,400 for cyclechat

 

[Greedo]

ipod - 2001 - Result -1300
ipod - 2008 - result - 374,000,000

 

[cookiemonster]

2001 Al Gore 980,000
2008 Al Gore 15,400,000

 

[Bodhbh]

Gah go on, will end up spamming this one as much as the music chain thread:

Moobs - 2001 - 61
Moobs - 2008 - 279,000

 

[cookiemonster]

2001 Google - Chav, 3320

2008 Google - Chav, 3,580,000

 

[zimzum42]

Can anyone find something where the number of hits has gone down?

 

[domtyler]

Another very strange anomaly I just came across!

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Search for 'porn' 2001 = Just under 4.5 million

Search for 'porn' 2008 = Slightly more

 

[alecstilleyedye]

even in 2001, over 14,000 hits for nicole cooke.

 

[magnatom]

2001 magnatom: Results 251
2008 magnatom: Results 12,400

 

[purplemoon]

[SIZE=-1]2001: 86,600 for credit crunch

[/SIZE]2008: 2,370,000 for credit crunch

 

[Bodhbh]

Can anyone find something where the number of hits has gone down?

I was wondering that, get the impression nearly everything just gets more hits. Tried to think of something 'bigger' in 2001 (jarvis cocker only thing that sprung to mind off the top of my head) but he gets far more hits now.

 

[red_tom]

"Y2K support" 3,300 in 2001

"Y2K support" 2,160 in 2008

Do I get a prize?