To celebrate their 10th birthday, Google have setup a site with their oldest available index.

When I’ve opened the site, I immediately recognized the view from back then.
It’s funny how much things change if you look back at them.

I guess they didn’t had an sketch drawer back then like they now have to change the ‘Google’ letters everyday.

But back to the Google 2001 site, this is a great opportunity to find out what you can find about some of the moneybloggers I visit every now and then. Did their sites existed back then or where they not known at all?

John Chow: One of the Icons in the moneyblogging industry. A search on his name gave back about 514 results in 2001 against 320.000 right now.
If you look at his site back then, you can’t even imagine that this guy will earn a lot of money by just blogging. Good job John!

Problogger Darren Rowse: Google search resulted in 0 hits on “Darren Rowse” and even on problogger. Can be correct if you know he started blogging in 2002

Jeremy Shoemaker (Shoemoney): Search on Shoemoney: 4 hits in 2001, 350.000 hits in 2008. Search on his name, 2 hits in 2001, 26000 in 2008.

Jim Kukral: in 2001, 5 hits. now 78.700 hits. A view of his site anno 2001

Carl Ocab: No hits in 2001, about 11000 hits right now.

45n5: 53 hits in 2001, but none related according to me. 36400 hits by now.

Nate Whitehill: Only 1 hit back then against around 17000 hits now.

Zac Johnson: 500 hits in 2001, one of the most known in my list back then and 44000 right now. His page back then gave a red cross, but I think this is what’s behind the cross.

Try searching your own name, did you hit ratio increased this spectacular also?

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