It’s time to go Back…to the Future! (or the past, whatever)
7 October 2008
So Google has come out with this awesome new search function called Google 2001. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Google brought back its oldest available index, which dates form January 2001. The implications are hella-fun. Imagine having every dumb prediction or statement made eight years ago by any pundit, on any topic, at your fingertips. Sports, the economy…it’s a treasure trove.
I decided to have some fun with this, punching in various search terms into Google 2001 to see what the sports world (and others) had to offer. This article for ESPN’s Page 2 was the result. Enjoy!
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hey i’ve heard you talk about that google 2001 on Dameshek’s podcast and I went to check it .Really cool thought the only thing missing about it is that you can’t acces the actual 2001 site on your search per example you can’t acces the 2001 nfl site …..cool anyways.Oh by the way I was stun to learn that whe’re from the same place !!!!!! Je suis bien d’accord avec toi qui va falloir que Carey Prcie soit bon sinon on gagnra jamais la coupe ….Bon 100ième
great stuff, though you could have left out the Yankees bit
no matter, got my rainbow Devil Rays Canseco jersey ready to cheer on the boys against Boston!
Hey gents, thanks for the feedback.
Briere, voici Google 2001, ca marche pour moi: http://www.google.com/search2001.html
Good to have a fellow Montrealer checking in. Keep supporting Dameshek’s show too, he’s one of the good guys.
Let’s Go Rays!
Google 2001 is great. I wanted to see if there were any investigations into Fannie Mae back in January 2001. Much to my surprise there were. But it was not for Fannie making bad loans, it was for racial discrimations (therefore not making the bad loans).
http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/1999/09/27/daily2.html
There were even people fearing Fannie was getting too large and was a major risk to the economy.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/071700/Worldandnation/Questions_raised_abou.shtml
Good call, magoobee.
I wanted to get into the economy and the stock market a little more, because people tend to be much wrongier on those issues, with more dire results, than on simple sports predictions. Alas, this was a column for ESPN, not my other gig at Investor’s Business Daily. At least they let me get the bit about the housing market in there.