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Google Time Machine: the Web in 2001

Google brought back the index from January 2001 to show how many things have changed in almost 8 years. At that time, Google's index included 1,326,920,000 web pages and it was the most comprehensive index of a search engine.

Google explains that the index from January 2001 is the earliest available. "Well, for various technical reasons that are too boring to go into, earlier versions of our index aren't readily accessible. But we did still want to offer users a chance to search an older index as a way of looking back at web history, and the January 2001 index is the best we can do."

As Wikipedia informs us, January 2001 was an important month: Wikipedia is founded, George W. Bush becomes the 43rd President of the United States and Apple introduces iTunes.

A search for Gmail returned results about a Linux mail client and the Garfield email service:

If you search for Google, you'll find references to very few Google services: Google Directory, Google Toolbar and specialized search engines for Apple, Linux, but not yet Microsoft.

In 2001, Google's algorithms were less smart than today:

Unfortunately, Google doesn't use the interface from 2001 and the exclamation mark has been removed from the logo in 1999. Here's an original Google SERP from May 2001, courtesy of Christina Wodtke:

Another anachronism is this error page titled "2001 problems":

For more Google nostalgia, don't miss Google's special site for the 10th birthday.

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Google Photo Search

Google Image Search has a new option that allows you to restrict the results to photos: just select "Return images that contain photo content" from the advanced search page.

A simple way to find photos would be to restrict the results to JPEG files, but a search for Gmail shows that many people use the JPEG format for logos and screenshots. If we use Google's image analysis technology, we'll find more photos related to Gmail, including the Gmail soap, Gmail Theater and Gmail's product manager Keith Coleman.

The other two content restrictions available in Google Image Search are for images that contain faces and for images that illustrate recent news articles. Microsoft's image search engine has more advanced options for refining your search: you can find photos, illustrations, faces and portraits.

DBSG_Sukira 1/5 [ENG SUB]

finally it subbed..but only for the 1st part..all credited to ginaya..thanks to her for her hardwork..the rest will follow later..btw, jaejoong n susu not in a very good condition tho..got one scene he cough..huhu..poor dearie..hope he's well now..and susu..early of this attendance he was not wearing the hygiene mask..but near to the end he's wearing it..i'm not sure..well, a lot of scene showing hyuksu 'love' moments..haha..they are cute..and they were not belive that their mirotic preordered 300 000 but after they checked it out..then only they believe..haha..well, i'm spazzing lot today..enjoy!

SBS CHOCOLATE SHOW OFFICIAL PICS~

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Lively, a Future Platform for Online Games

"X-Ray Kid is the team that was recruited by Google to establish the visual style and aesthetic direction" for Lively, the 3D chat service launched in July. "It's been 2 years of work, dozens of original character designs, each with hundreds of unique animations, thousands of clothing variations and original sound content. In addition, we also produced numerous themed environments, hundreds of objects, animated room buddies, and the list goes on," explains the game development studio.

Kevin Hanna, creative director at X-Ray Kid, offers some insights on Lively's future in an interview for GamesIndustry.biz. Kevin says that there are lot of interesting features that will be added to Lively:

Some of my favourite stuff has yet to come out. There's a lot of different characters, and cute animals and stuff, but we didn't do anything really genre-pushing. I think with the next step we're going to be still within that style, but really pushing the different genres of known game types. (...) There is a longer term goal of opening up the API so the architecture of Lively could be used as an online games platform.

Google has already bought AdScape, a company that monetizes games by placing relevant advertising, and some speculated that Google intends to acquire Valve, the company that developed Half Life.

INKI COMEBACK-LOVE IN THE ICE

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JUNSU IN SUKIRA~

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Cassies GIFTS FOR THE BOYS COMEBACK

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Day 19, Prague: Pretty Pictures and Ugly Urges, or, On Art Nouveau and Chicken McNuggets

Today I visit the Mucha Museum. For the plebes reading this, Alphonse (Alfons) Mucha was arguably the father of the Art Nouveau movement, a school typified by colorful ads full of pretty girls suggesting dirty deeds, big hair, and lots of swirly thingies.

Totally asking for it.

Once again, I find the solitude of travel taking its toll. All of these swirly pictures of half-naked women serve as little more than a painful reminder of my own base humanity, completely quashing the inner sophisticate who so desperately wants to appreciate art for art's sake. In short: all I see are boobies and cigarettes.

Don't Bogart that J, lady.

I think I'm going to have to stay away from art museums for a while.

Some food will draw my attention from these evil urges.

Seizing my last opportunity to enjoy traditional Czech fare, I duck into an authentic-looking restaurant and order their incomprehensible lunch special, hoping for something crazy.

Turns out, it's a 5-piece McNugget Extra Value Meal. And it doesn't even come with any dipping sauce.

Could I get some Sweet 'N Sour sauce over here?

That's enough of you, Prague. Off to Vienna, where all the food is miniature and eaten with toothpicks.

Party in a can.

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Google Groups Video Results

Google adjusted the interface for video results that are part of universal search. Until now, Google promoted two videos in the first 10 results if the query was strongly associated with videos, but they looked like standard results. The new interface separates the two results from Google Video and this is more in line with other types of OneBoxes (images, local business, news) that evolved into universal search results.

Another change is that the image results group has 4 images instead of only 3 and it can be displayed inside the list of search results, not just at the top or at the bottom. When the image results group shows up at the top of the page, the thumbnails are significantly larger.

Building an universal search engine that manages to rank web pages, images, videos, books, maps turned out to be a difficult task, so Google tries to do something easier: rank OneBoxes for different specialized search engines and display them in appropriate places. You can find a version of Google that doesn't include universal search results at searchmash.com.