> 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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