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July 26, 2006

Old Google Homepages Still Live

David Bloom found some interesting pages on Google's servers. You can compare them to archive.org's version.

These URLs:
google.com//////
google.com/intl/en//////
google.com/intl/en/intl/en/
...will take you to an old Google homepage (copyright 2003).

And this URL:
google.com/intl///////
...will take you to an even older homepage (copyright 2001).


The page from 2003 doesn't have any link to other Google services like Image Search or Groups, so it's not the actual Google homepage from that time. The page from 2001 is Google's homepage.

Update: Google fixed this and no link seems to work anymore.

22 comments:

  1. It's interesting too look at how "Searching [number] web pages" has grown over the past few years.

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  2. it was interesting to watch that number grow over the years. what ever happend to it? why can we no longer see just how much crawling google has done?

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  3. I hate the new look, the old one was fine, please put it back.

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  4. I hate the new homepage that lacks the tabs. l mean really, what is the reason for taking away convenience. l say give me the old one back please!

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  5. bate it! hate it ! hate it!! wanted simple home page with nothing else on it.want old one back

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  6. I am not going to use Google anymore because I HATE the new iGoogle homepage. I am changing to MSN or Yahoo (unless they bring the old simple one back. Like the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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  7. Click on "Classic Home" to back to the simple homepage.

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  8. Help!! Today my good old, quick to load, nothing-but-google-search homepage became igoogle. Who the devil decided FOR ME that I want all kinds of "user friendly", "helpful" garbage?? I do NOT was Igoogle. I do not want to know the news, the stock market, or what's on UTube. I don't even want to know the weather - I have a window for that -- and I can even open it & let the weather into the house!

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  9. Click on "Classic Home" to back to the simple homepage.

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  10. I am so disappointed in the 'gaget homepage'! I hate it and want my old one back NOW!

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  11. I hate iGoogle to where I was switched once without even offering a trial. I need my old good Google home page back. How can I go back to it?

    Thanks,
    -Vza

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  12. Google has caught the AOL bug, so I guess it's down hill for Google from now on.

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  13. Not wanting to be compaired to AOL, Google returned me to my home page of choice

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  14. I do not like this new look; it is congested and simply crappy. Who in hell thought this up anyway. Back to the old page or I use another search engine.

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  15. I HATE, HATE, HATE the new Google homepage, how do I get the old one back? Please, someone tell me, how can I get the old Google homepage, the new one sucks, big time.

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  16. Just give us a way to convert to the old system-it was cleaner and better

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  17. I hate the new layout, wasted space and gmail text line. I want my old page back!

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  18. What was so bad about the old one that needed to change? I hate the news tabs, and how gmail opens on the homepage. Bad stuff.

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  19. I can only echo the complaints re: the "new" piece of crap of a home page.

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  20. does anyome know how to get the old google home page back? thank you

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  21. i can't get onto the 2001 homepage!

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  22. it doesn't work!!!!!!!:(

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