For Google’s 15th Birthday Search “Google In 1998″ For A Flashback
Search Google for [Google in 1998] and youll see a search results page from 1998, the year when Google was incorporated as a privately held company. Its an Easter Egg that reminds you how much Google has evolved, while preserving a simple user interface.
The old search results includes the original Google logo that had an exclamation mark just like Yahoo!, Google-scout - another name for the feature that returns similar pages, a drop-down that lets you pick the number of results per page, search within results, the size of the cached pages and a list of links to other search engines. All the search results link to the Wayback Machine, since most of them no longer exist.
The old search results includes the original Google logo that had an exclamation mark just like Yahoo!, Google-scout - another name for the feature that returns similar pages, a drop-down that lets you pick the number of results per page, search within results, the size of the cached pages and a list of links to other search engines. All the search results link to the Wayback Machine, since most of them no longer exist.
Googles birthday is in September, but the date has changed over the years. "Google opened its doors in September 1998. The exact date when we celebrate our birthday has moved around over the years, depending on when people feel like having cake,"mentioned a Google page. Google has usually celebrated its birthday on September 27 and this year is special: Google is 15 years old. Happy birthday, Google!
[Via Search Engine Land]