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The Database of Intentions, Then … and Now

As part of Google’s never-ending 10th birthday party, they’ve got a link on their homepage to their oldest available index, from January 2001.  Come with me to a kinder, gentler time, when:

• A query for paris hilton returned pages about hotels instead of a spoiled bimbo.
• You got about 410 million less hits for ipod, and none of them were about portable music players.  And iPhone?  Yup, a phone marketed by … Cisco Systems.
• Facebook was a still just a Harvard phenomenon.
• Net neutrality wasn’t on our radar screens.
• The #1 hit for American Idol was — you guessed it! — The Red Green Show.

My, how our Database of Intentions has changed in less than a decade.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).