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- rtoo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+269Wrong!
Do you remember how difficult it was to get any news or even have a website pull-up? Most of the big ones were flooded with hits and didnt respond. Google not only stayed up, the linked you to cached sites where you could get information. Not to mention how quickly Google put this stuff up.
Google kicks ass^10, plus they have free food in the cafeteria. - MioTheGreat, on 10/21/2007, -6/+168So long as they realize that a plane hitting the 'l' would be a little distasteful....
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -32/+129That made me cringe.
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+95i was expecting one of their trademark google "event" logos .. matter of fact, i'm surprised that they didn't come up with something for today.
- BoringPostcards, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61They were getting 6,000 searches for "CNN" per minute?! Could people not remember the address of CNN's web site?
- inactive, on 10/21/2007, -46/+975 years ago I was using Athlon XP 1800+ and no one gives a ***** about it so you can all digg me down.
- shit, on 10/12/2007, -7/+49I actually thought that they should have the Two Towers for the two L's in Google.
Then I realized there weren't 2 L's in "Google". - conan359, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41It's way easier to type in cnn and click "I'm feeling lucky" than to go though all the pain and effort of adding ".com" to the end.
- floppyparty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33"Kinda makes me miss the old days. Much less clutter on an already clutter-light site."
Are you guys on acid? 5 years later and Google looks pretty much the same as it did before. YES, they added a few links, boo hoo. - appidydafoo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Maybe you can link to an archive.org page instead of taking a screenshot of it and posting it on your spam depository.
http://web.archive.org/web/20011012070022/www.google.com/msg.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+34I feel kind of bad for you guys. I have a television (well I did back then) and had many, many channels of news about it, as of about 5 minutes after it happened.
- speaker219, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25This is what it looked like on other search engines:
If you searched google for "world trade center": http://searchenginewatch.com/img/google2.gif
If you went to google.com/currentevents:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/google3.gif
If you went to the altavista home page:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/av2.gif
If you searched altavista for "terrorist attack":
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/av3.gif
If you went to the Yahoo! homepage:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/yahoo.gif
If you went to the Lycos home page:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/lycos.gif
If you went to the msn home page:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/msn.gif
If you searched for "world trade center" on ask jeeves:
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/ask.gif
If you did an AOL search for "world trade center":
http://searchenginewatch.com/img/aol.gif - OandA, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26Well being in new york city that day getting even google to load was a problem. I'm pretty sure it had to do with the massive blow verizons infrastructure took from the collapses.
- meccaneko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24I think their policy is probably to only create logo's for positive events that people celebrate, not for something as sad as this..
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25my parents type web address into the google search box instead of the address box... ive tried to explain it would be faster to just type it up top than to have google search for it and then click on the link to the website...
- allenu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Please make the eagle crying a single tear drop as well!
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -11/+33Maybe today they can have a big american flag w/ and eagle logo.
- arkmtech, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Maybe I'm just over-thinking, but I like how Google made a point to remain neutral with "Breaking news: Attacks hit US" despite all of the hype from the media.
Google could've done anything - They could have said "Al-Qaeda attacks US!" or "Terrorists attacking US!" or even "SPONSORED BY [Insert media conglomerate here]: [Insert wildly radical "news" headline here]" but instead chose to stick to the only fact anyone really knew that day: The U.S. was being attacked.
I just found it intriguing... - ZaNkY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22I was expecting a logo too, but I guess they figured it wasn't worth it to step on someone's toes. It would be SOO easy to offend someone, especially if you knew you had a relative that might have been involved.
Personally, my Dad flew to DC the day before the attacks, thankfully he called us (we were in California) at 6 something AM. Otherwise in the confusion of watching the TV we could have thought that he was dead. This truly was a tragic event. Kudos for Google for having a good cache of all the news. - RickySan65, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22"Quick Lisa, whats the number for 911"
--- Homer J. Simpson - Turki, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27@P155:
"They could have an american flag (modified with the islamic star and crescent to replace the stars) draped over the corpse of George Bush."
Islamic star and cresent WTF?!!!
Don't tell me that you belive a cresent and star are the symbols of Islam. Islam doesn't have a symbol.
And to tell you the truth: I'm sick and tired of people blaming Islam because of the attacks and crap like that. I really doubt that Bin Laden is a muslim, considering his history with the CIA. Just like wearing a cross doesn't make you represent Christianity, saying Allahackbur (sp?) doesn't make you Muslim.
PS: My nighbor is a Muslim, and he is the nicest guy in the building. - pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25with the eagle eating apple pie?
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19You would have had trouble finding it since the IPO wasn't until 3 years later.
- BillyEveryteen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I was about to say the exact same thing.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19I do remember what I did, I was at school the schools never told us what had happened until we got home also we got a new pc that day so happy bday Pentium 4 1.4Ghz
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17Notice at bottom of article...
"Do you still remember what you did 5 years ago?"
Yeah... Wished I would have purchased a hella maxload of stock on Google at that time... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12You're un-american if you don't digg this pointless story!
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You didn't get the memo? You should read the digg more often.
- ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Not surprised.
Was it AOL search or MSN search that ranked their number one listing as "google"? It was one of the two, I forget.
Anyway, people will walk to the ends of the earth if it means not having to touch a keyboard. - BufordT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I know a lot of people who think the way to type in a website address is to go to google and search for "www.cnn.com" There is an astonishing amount of people out there who are totally baffled with the concept of the address bar.
- heysuburbia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yahoo! 9/11/01:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911205959/www.yahoo.com/
CNN 9/11/01:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010911203610rn_2/www.cnn.com/
FOX 9/11/01:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010912195154/www.foxnews.com/
CBS 9/11/01:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010914223928/www.cbs.com/
Digg 9/11/01:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010302074538/www.digg.com/ - webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9And the crying apple-pie eating eagle playing baseball?
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Actually, I can see this really.
I have gotten more used to useing Google's toolbar to go to a corporate website then actually typing in the companies URL.
Its kind of braindead really concerning CNN (www.cnn.com), but there are a lot of corporate websites that are not so obvious (like Nissan motors try and go to www.nissan.com ). Its just easier because 9/10 times, Google will put the corporate website first without having to remember that Nissan's website is actually Nissanusa.com.
Its worse if your in Canada because you often want to go to Canadian pages, so typing in Nissan Canada removes any ambiguity of accidently typing in Nissan.com or assuming Nissan.ca. Many global corporations do not necessarily use the .ca suffix to designate Canadian websites.
The bottom line, it comes out of habit. I seldom type in URL's anymore. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7How the Google looked. Wow, I've been sitting here all day asking "how did the Google look five years ago?"
- pintomp3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8lwdallas: i wasn't tossing candy on the street, i was tossing out my french fries to replace them with freedom fries. i love this country so much, i must prove it each and every day and never question it. i must also denounce things i have nothing to do with. idiot
- quanta88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I remember how CNN.com looked like that morning. They were getting so slammed they took down the whole site and only showed the one article. The article was in plain text (i.e. Courier font), no images. This was despite the fact they were load balanced on multiple Akamai servers.
It was kinda freaky in its own right. - Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8OBKenobi:
Ever read the 25th Amendment? I suggest you do so now. Impeachment and removal from office is not what you want. I always love seeing bumper stickers that say "Impeach Bush" because they're really saying "Cheney for President". - pseudojd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Fark.com was my news headquarters that morning. There was talk of bin laden within an hour.
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11people are killed frequently in NYC too... the significance was that 1000s died in a few minutes... like Electric Grandpa said, have some respect...
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I beg to differ, where I worked (UK), we all knew about Bin Laden in 2001 from the 1993 bombing.
- rhmmj, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@appidydafoo: "spam depository"
Such a spam directory that Google asked him to create a post about a book he wrote for the Official Google Blog?
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/55-ways-to-have-fun-with-google.html - zeptobyte, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15@MioTheGreat
I feel absolutely terrible for laughing at that, but the image in my mind was so funny... - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7There have indeed been worse atrocities in the world since then. He meant the world as in THE world, not the world series.
One word maybe.. tsunami? Does that ring a bell? - ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14That doesn't mean it wasn't a huge, catastrophic event. Have some respect.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4good trick if he could film 2 films at the same time, he was in Canada filming the tuxedo on the 10th of September :p
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/jackchan.htm
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000329/
care to note the lack of a film called nosebleed on his imdb profile too :-) - ScottyMo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15Yeah, I'm finding it hard to believe that they haven't done one yet.
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html
Over the years, they've had logos for widely celebrated holidays and obscure birthdays. They've had current events and reminders. Up to this point, however, they haven't addressed one of the most significant events of recent memory.
In their defense, I also wasn't able to find anything related to Pearl Harbor or other similar remembrances. - kgool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I thought Controlled Demolition, Inc. did it?
- cybersamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They should have done something in rememberence, possible the new Freedom Tower as the L to show that we are still strong.
- Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why? They all suck.
- BevansDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Bleh, it looks just like it always does, except with some news links on the bottom.
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