Tag Archives: history

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Looking back in time can be very interesting: Google in 2004

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Sometimes it can be very interesting to look back into the past. As an historian I know that you can get new insights from looking back. With 2010 just starting and many bloggers looking forward, a view back in time can give you a lot of insight.

This video below Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are on stage at the TED conference, back in 2004. A very insightful video, look at it and then I will tell you what I noticed.

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My latest Searchengineland column: effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall

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The fall of the Berlin WallAs you may know I have a monthly column on Searchengineland. There I discuss search in Europe. The column is meant to have people actually learn things. Just telling them they should use different title tags and different translators for each country is something many already do, so I try to put in a different angle.

In my latest column I looked at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. You should know I studied history so I always have an interest in historical facts and especially in historical relationships. In my latest column I tried to connect that what happened in 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall, to how we do search these days.

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Ten years of Google Homepages: spot the differences

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Google birthday DoodleThis month Google celebrates its ten year anniversary. Reason for many bloggers and media to stop and look back. And why not. Google has in the past decade, changed the way we all use the Internet.

For ten years, most of us almost daily open the white, quiet Google Homepage. The "original" Google homepage is still recognizable in today’s homepage, but in the course of the years more has changed than you might suspect. An overview.

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