The Google Buzz 4 Years Ago
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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.
[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]
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