Google 2001

October 2nd, 2008 · 8 Comments

Ever wonder if your site made it in Google back when they first started?

Google just put up a nostalgia page featuring their oldest index. It’s a full featured search page, returning the crawled web pages in the year 2001. To my surprise, searching for my last name revealed my good old domain name as the #1 result! Back then, SEO techniques weren’t invented, so I didn’t even know how to be on top of their search result list. My site was just up and available. Apparently for Google, that was good enough.

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8 responses so far ↓

1 haleyhughes // Oct 3, 2008 at 8:59 am

Very cool. I think. OK, a little bit scary too. Firm proof that once you put something out there on the Internet, it stays.

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2 rudyamid // Oct 3, 2008 at 9:09 am

Hi Haley,

With so many search engines and blogs now, internet content is stickier than ever.
3 farzan // Oct 5, 2008 at 6:55 pm

woah, thats cool that your the first one on that search. I havent tried mine yet

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4 nhuong // Oct 6, 2008 at 9:03 am

wow, 2001 was sooo long ago.

I didn’t have a site back then. Google is all grown up now. Oh how time passes by.

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5 Queenie Star Cruz // Oct 8, 2008 at 8:18 pm

yeah that is so true! congatulations for being at the top of that search. I did search mine and yeah I am there! weird but amusing.lol!
6 rudyamid // Oct 9, 2008 at 6:17 am

Thanks y’all!
7 trade show displays // Oct 31, 2008 at 10:04 am

hi Rudy,
Wow, what a blast from the past. I just clicked through and did a couple of searches myself. Interesting to get a glimpse of the internet as it existed in 2001.
This will also teach me to be a little faster reading your posts. I apparently just made it in under the wire since the Google page has a note saying “This page will not be available after tomorrow” (november 1). Check it out now if you want to see it!
~ Steve (aka trade show displays)
PS. I just checked google (current) and you’re no longer on page 1 for “Amid”. Too bad we can’t turn back time… You are number one for “rudy amid” though! Congrats!
8 rudyamid // Nov 1, 2008 at 8:07 am

Hey Steve,

Yeah. There are more sites out there with better PageRank than mine, so my last name “Amid” goes to them first.

It’s one of those days that I wish I have a totally unique last name like “Uberschwitzer”.