Google [was Re: Off-topic message confusion]

[Wayne Smith]

> On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 
> > Rumor has it that Eric Smith may have mentioned these words:
> > > > How old is google anyway? Presumably it'll be on topic 
> in a year 
> > > > or two? ;)
> >
> > Doubtful, Yahoo's only 10 years old, according to one 
> reference - and 
> > it even includes what Yahoo originally stood for:
> >
> > http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/5082.htm
> >
> > When this list was started, AltaVista was king with Yahoo not far 
> > behind, IIRC; Google didn't come around for a few years after that.
> 
> Interestingly enough, we first learned about Google from 
> someone posting a message to this list about a "new 
> experimental search engine".  I wish I could find that 
> message to see who it was that posted it.  It would have been 
> back in 1997 or 1998.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sellam Ismail

If you search it on the Wayback Machine the earliest date it gives is
11/11/98, which takes you here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111184551/http://google.com/ and gives
you two links to a search engine "prototype."  Clicking on the first of
them takes you here:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.stanford.edu/

Note the stanford.edu address.

-W




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