24 Dec
2004
24 Dec
'04
8:54 a.m.
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
reference - and
If you search it on the Wayback Machine the earliest date it gives is
11/11/98, which takes you here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/ and gives
you two links to a search engine "prototype." Clicking on the first of
them takes you here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.edu/
Note the stanford.edu address.
-W
If
Rumor has it that Eric Smith may have mentioned
these words:
> > How old is google anyway? Presumably it'll be on topic
in a year
> or
two? ;)
Doubtful, Yahoo's only 10 years old, according to one it even includes what Yahoo originally stood
for:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/5082.htm
When this list was started, AltaVista was king with Yahoo not far
behind, IIRC; Google didn't come around for a few years after that.
Interestingly enough, we first learned about Google from
someone posting a message to this list about a "new
experimental search engine". I wish I could find that
message to see who it was that posted it. It would have been
back in 1997 or 1998.
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