Google index release highlights web trends
By Miya Knights,
Google has made a cut-down version of its 2001 search index available as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations - but for one month only.
The search giant said there were a number of technical reasons it was not able to make results available that date back to its birth in 1998, as well as every single web page indexed in 2001. But the Google 2001 index does contain some 1.3 billion web pages that highlight a number of trends in the growth of online content.
Search engine optimisation is the discipline that has seen the biggest growth, with Google search results growing from 12,300 in 2001 to 77.8 million today. This amounts to a massive increase of 632,520 per cent, according to analysis by user experience consultancy Webcredible.
Also among the results from Google’s oldest readily accessible search index, usability and accessibility have increased by 5,572 per cent (from 481,000 results to 26.8 million) and 8,307 per cent (1 million to 83.9 million) respectively, with search results for social media, online marketing and email marketing all showing a growth of well over 1,000 per cent.
Trenton Moss, Webcredible director, said: “The rise in importance of websites and online marketing over the past seven years is already well known, but Google’s launch of its 2001 search index goes to really show the extent of this.”
He said the sheer volume of growth in results returned on a search for these terms proved their related disciplines of online user experience, search and social media were now crucial elements of establishing a successful online channel with which to reach customers and prospects.
Compared to the more than eight billion web pages Google has indexed today, a cursory search of the 2001 index also highlights the issue of historical access to the web, where many pages were no longer live.
Even with initiatives like Internet Archive up and running, a lack of forethought on the part of site publishers when it comes to archiving could mean large parts of historical online content could be lost forever.
Sponsored Links
advertisement
Latest Networking Analysis & Insight
Bring you own device: the $600 question
Inside the enterprise: A recent Cisco report claims bring your own device is gaining support from IT departments. But how much are staff willing to invest in personal technology?
- Interop 2012: Q&A, Saar Gillai, CTO, HP Networking
- Is BT the key to broadband Britain?
- Tencent: the biggest web company you’ve never heard of
- The truth about spam
- Have ISPs finally lost the DEA fight?
- Are you ready to launch IPv6 securely?
- Broadband, pricing and small businesses
- Welcome to the stay-at-home Olympics
- Q&A: Cisco on servers, storage and strategy
Latest Networking Reviews
HP t410 All-in-One Thin Client review: First look
- Swyx SwyxExpress X20 review
- Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold Premium 15
- ForeScout Technologies CounterACT 6.3.4
- ThinPrint Printer Dashboard review: First Look
- TITUS Aware for Microsoft Outlook review
- Windows Phone 7 Mango review: First Look
- Dartware InterMapper review
- Kemp Technologies LoadMaster 3600 review
- Sangfor WANACC M5500 review
advertisement
Most popular
- Apple iPad 3 vs iPad 2 head-to-head review
- ICO: Fines for cookie law breakers
- Hutchison denies it will pull plug on Three UK
- Sony Vaio T13 Ultrabook review: First look
- BlackBerry 7 OS certified to carry 'Restricted' UK government information
- Facebook floatation marred by Nasdaq glitch
- Open source software driving cloud-based innovation
- CIO: Career is over?
- EMC World 2012: Tucci declares Documentum is here to stay
- Dell PowerEdge R820 review
Register for IT PRO
You'll get exclusive member benefits including free whitepapers, downloads, Webinars and weekly newsletters full of the latest IT PRO news, reviews, insight and expertise.


