Google celebrated its 10th birthday by reopening the company's 2001 search index, which features over 1.3 billion web pages and the old logo with an exclamation mark. The resurrected search engine will be available for only one month.Blogoscoped: Try Google Search As It Was in 2001 (September 30, 2008)
According to various Internet related blogs, the 2001 version of Google provides a historical snapshot of the world wide web and its development. Some of today's most popular searches, including "Barack Obama" and "BitTorrent," yield very few to zero results in the older engine.Blogoscoped: Try Google Search As It Was in 2001 (September 30, 2008) SitePoint: What Was Search Like in 2001? Google Knows (October 1, 2008)
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The search results are not exactly but approximately similar to the ones in 2001Blogoscoped: Try Google Search As It Was in 2001 (September 30, 2008)
