Google 2001 Search

Google 2001 Search

In honor of Google’s 10th year anniversary, they’ve brought back their oldest available index dated 2001. Google only had over 1.3 billion webpages indexed that time and it’s a little nostalgic to do some ego-searching on that year.

A search for “yugatech” in 2001 reveals my old website hosted on HyperMart.net. It was an “AnandTech” wannabe.

google 2001

Back then, .com domains were still $35PHP 2,054INR 2,966EUR 33CNY 255 a year but there were at least two services that gave out free domains in exchange for free banner ads (via an ad bar) like NameDemo.

My university-hosted page also shows up when searching for my name and it showed our project page on WireLess LAN. I was playing around with 2Mbps WiFi networks back in 1999.

Check out Google in 2001.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

8 Comments

Alex says:

16 years ago

whoa Abe you’re a legend @ the Filipino internet community. Back in 2001 i was like 16 years old playing pc games like hell.

Wish i started earlier :(

More power and keep it up, love your blog!

Dale
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Andre Marcelo-Tanner says:

16 years ago

I had hypermart too :)
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=andre+marcelo-tanner&btnG=Google+Search
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deuts says:

16 years ago

Too bad it wasn’t January of 2002. My name should have appeared in the search results if it was 2002 instead.
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anonymous says:

16 years ago

Google now Translate to Filipino language, check it out:
http://translate.google.com.ph/translate_t?hl=tl
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Alwell says:

16 years ago

I was there too :D heavenslair.virtualave.net
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Patrick says:

16 years ago

ooh… Hypermart. I faintly remember looking into that hosting site back in 03 when I was searching for webhosts for my fansite. I eventually ended up getting a plan from a local webhost. :D

@Alwell: oh, fancy seeing you here.. hehe! I didn’t know heavenslair did not have its own domain before. ;)

My first site was a school project so naturally it would be hosted in geocities. That was… early 2003. Too bad. Tried my full name too.. I’m not “searchable” yet back in 2001. :(
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blankPixels says:

16 years ago

I tried looking for the website I made for my irc channel back in 1999. It wasn’t indexed. I wasn’t that aware yet of ways to be indexed. It was on a free domain back then. Hehehe. Thanks for the info!
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