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Google Homepage Circa 1997

• n-named 16y ago
  I haven't seen this before, and found the statistics at the bottom interesting.
• mek 16y ago
  Sweet! I would LOVE to see the logo mentioned in the F.A.Q. 8) Your logo is upside down: Why is the light source obviously below the image? It looks quite unnatural... The logo is simply a scan of my hand, from a flatbed scanner converted to black and white. The "back" in the picture is the scanner cover, and the shadows are from the scanner light.
• erikpukinskis 16y ago
  We know what happened to Larry and Sergei, but I was curious what happened to Scott Hassan and Alan Steremberg: Scott: http://www.zdnet.com/news/life-after-google-with-millions/184389 http://www.zdnet.com/news/life-after-google-with-millions/18... Alan: http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_weather.html http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_weat... / http://news.cnet.com/Start-up-warms-up-personal-robots/2100-11394_3-6214965.html?tag=mantle_skin;content http://news.cnet.com/Start-up-warms-up-personal-robots/2100-...
• dasil003 16y ago
  It blows my mind that the entire corpus of fetched web pages can fit on a single midrange laptop's HD today; clustering on indeed.
• tragiclos 16y ago
  Is any of the data about the size of their index and so on still available? Is there some competitive advantage to keeping this secret?
  • lubos 16y ago
    it's probably meaningless by now... my guess is that the reason why google doesn't publish stats, they simply don't want bing or yahoo or someone else claim to have the biggest index and gain cheap press coverage... after all it's not about how big index you got but you are doing with it
• David 16y ago
  From the FAQ page: "8) Your logo is upside down: Why is the light source obviously below the image? It looks quite unnatural... The logo is simply a scan of my hand, from a flatbed scanner converted to black and white. The "back" in the picture is the scanner cover, and the shadows are from the scanner light." But no image on the main page =( I really wish they'd archived that, too. (Says something about the necessity of making v1 look good. Of course, the web was a different place in '97.)
  • jawee 16y ago
    http://www.google.com/logos/backrub_small.jpg http://www.google.com/logos/backrub_small.jpg Found at: http://www.google.com/logos/fan.html http://www.google.com/logos/fan.html (scroll to the bottom and it has older official Google logos)
    • toolate 16y ago
      http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-backrub-2007.png http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-backrub-2007.png full size for those that are interested.
    • David 16y ago
      Awesome! I should have known to google it... xD
• n-named 16y ago
  Why was my title edited? It is so OG [1]. Think about it in the context of, this is my research project/company launch page. OG is accurate and should not have been stripped from the headline. Unless of course someone did this first? [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=og http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=og
  • scotth 16y ago
    Unnecessary editorializing? Goofy language? Pick one.
    • n-named 16y ago
      You're right. I was just a bit excited that I found it. HN wouldn't be as good if everyone did this.
• Kilimanjaro 16y ago
  Backrub? http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.e...