The first Google?

I was browsing through Archive.org and i came across http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/. Is this the first Google?

 

It was called BackRub back in 1997: http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html

http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065417/http://backrub.stanford.edu/

BackRub started in Jan 06 http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html but I can;t find any screen dumps of it.

 

lol...never remember seeing that one!

 

That is weird looking google.

 

LOL wow what a change. Back then they were like many of us. Nobodies. Now look at them.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/19990221202430/www.google.com/company.html

Business development
For job seekers
For the press, or to notify us of new stories mentioning Google
For general information (but first, please see our help and "Why use Google?" pages)
For suggestions and comments about the website
For general suggestions and comments

 

You know I always wondered how they came up with the name. I never really thought about it.

 

i dont know if it is or not. that does not,look familiar at all.. But then again when Google first came out VERY few people used it. Yahoo was the big one at the time. But also at the time was a lot of experimentation. it seems right before the milenium Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, HotBot, and Metacrawler all hit the search scene. Still Yahoo triumphed but many people used the other engines. Google I remember being around, but not popular. At least in the city i was in.

 

Well you have to give them credit they did make it work out well for themselves. Yahoo just sat back and let them take it all. This is similar to what Kmart did when Wal-Mart was much smaller. They just sat there thinking they were invicible.

 

That should be a lesson to all of us. Giants in the Internet fields once started out looking like crap. But they kept right at it. They persevered, and evolved.

So should your site.

Skinny

 

LOL have you seen my site. This will never happen

 

Yea we would have avoided it like the plague. Smart marketing on their part.