Wednesday, October 31, 2007

The Google Buzz 4 Years Ago

Andy Baio’s Waxy.org contains a super cool link blog. In October/ November 2003, these were some of the Google items linked by Andy (in reverse-chronological order):

• “Making sense of the recent Google update (spam-blocking efforts blow out many commercial sites)”
• “Googlehouse, house built on Google Images (IE-only, I think)”
• “Automated news images (Google News, without the words)”
• “MSN Newsbot (Microsoft’s answer to Google News)”
• “XGoogle, IRC search engine (search channel names, topics, and XDCC files)”
• “Searching for BitTorrents with Google”
• “Google indexing IRC channels? (Google vaguely acknowledges the effort)”
• “Economist on Google’s future”
• “And Microsoft wants to buy Google”
• “Friendster rejects Google’s $30m buyout bid (I can’t believe they turned it down)”
• “Google interested in creating a book database (wants to compete with Amazon?)”
• “eBay affiliates spamming Google (I expect Google to retaliate any day now)”
• “Google considers online IPO auction”
• “New Google feature: “define” (retrieves definitions culled from the web)”

For more Waxy history also see Andy’s link archives and the Waxy cloud.

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