Authentic markup full of and tags, too!
Larry coded that up probably. Don't make him feel bad! ;)
Google in 1998
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Re: Google in 1998
#12http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193923/http://www.altavis... is wrong.
Try this instead: http://web.archive.org/web/19980505193939/http://www.altavis...
GoogleScout wasn't around until 1999: http://googlepress.blogspot.com.au/1999/09/googles-new-googl...
Also, I think 'Cached' used to be called 'View old version', having done some research.
Re: Google in 1998
#13They were so confident about their search results that they were giving links to their competitors' websites at the bottom of their page
Re: Google in 1998
#14looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stan...
Oh, man, dat java water effect: http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stan...
Re: Google in 1998
#15Give me an ajax-less google search over what we have now any day.
Re: Google in 1998
#16For me, following the link here comes up as my default set-up for iGoogle, the home page skin that Google will deprecate in another month or so.
I have used Google since the beginning. I was amused, when I updated my personal website at the beginning of this year, to discover that most of the pages on my site still had a paragraph specifically recommending Google, as if most people had never heard of it. That's how enthusiastic I was about Google when I first discovered it. (I discovered Google when it was still Backrub, but examining which search engine spiders visited my site.)
Re: Google in 1998
#17looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stan...
Oh, man, dat java water effect: http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stan...
It's an animated gif (http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952im_/http://www-db.s...) :P
Re: Google in 1998
#18I assume that the top "Google RN" link refers to "RealNames", which was a cross between AOL keywords and an alternate domain name system. It surprising to see that there, because canonical registries (i.e. Yahoo, RealNames) are kinda the antithesis of what Google was pioneering at the time (i.e. PageRank).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067393/RealNames-To-Cl...
Re: Google in 1998
#19looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stan...
Oh, man, dat java water effect: http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stan...
Java Applets were light years ahead of anything else including Flash. The single only reason why Java Applets did not become the defacto interactive web client side technology is due to (in my opinion) Microsoft. And as another reader pointed out, it's an animated GIF.
Re: Google in 1998
#20Before Google I used Dogpile, brother recommended it, before that I had to craft some clever searches in Alta Vista. Google rocks.