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Tonight I’m Gonna Search Like It’s 1999 or 2001
By Matt Keough | October 2, 2008
Google recently celebrated its 10th birthday. Happy birthday, Google.
You’ve come a long way, baby. As a fun little celebration, they have made an index from 2001 available. (The earliest versions are not readily accessible.)
Take it for a spin and ponder for a moment how much internet marketing has changed. I was involved with search engine optimization in the late 90’s, but I didn’t call it that. I was just trying to get visitors to my employer’s website. I had never heard the term SEO. And apparently nobody else had either.
For search marketing veterans, take a look at how you were doing in 2001. Are you embarrassed? I once heard an architect say “Doctors bury their mistakes, we have to grow ivy.” Thanks to this little throwback, search engine marketers can’t hide, at least for a month. Google plans on shutting this down in a month.
Here is a search 2001 FAQ. Update: the party is over.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
An added incentive to subscribe to our RSS feed. You get to see my typos before I have my first cup of coffee! :-)
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:59 am
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing this information with us.
October 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Interesting post…little bit of yesteryear does indeed show the progress. Fun to look back.