In honor of its 10th birthday, Google has recreated and made available its oldest available index for your searching amusement, from January 2001. The 2001 index contains 1,326,920,000 fully searchable web pages, and is available at http://www.google.com/search2001.html (or just click here). Be prepared to waste invest a good bit of time trying out your favorite and most creative searches to see how much things have changed in just 7 years.
For instance, it seems impossible now that a Google search for “Sarbanes Oxley,” which today provides 6,810,000 search results, could ever result in zero hits but the legislation didn’t even exist back then.
