Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Rewind to 2001

Google, on its 10th birthday (upcoming) has opened up its oldest available index. It can be tried here. I came across this site, and decided to give it a try. Of course I tried my own name, and the search (as expected returned nothing interesting). Then, I searched for A.R. Rahman and came across a few sites there.

Then I decided to search names of certain four people. Here are the search results:

Person (1): About 771
Person (2): About 232,000
Person (3): About 6040
Person(4): About 2,610.

Now, if I do the same search in today's google index, here are the numbers:

Person (1): About 77,300,000
Person (2): About 68,300,000
Person (3): About 15,500,000
Person (4): Hold your breath, about 154,000,000!!!

Do I need to provide more clues on who are these above? Can you guess?

Hint 1. I did not use a '+' in the search.
Hint 2. Most probably the present number for person (4) is expected to grow even as you read this.

6 comments:

Anand Sarolkar said...

Let me guess...

Sachin Tendulkar, George Bush, Bill gates and Laden ;)

Nandan said...

Is Obama the fourth person? :)

Ajit said...

Anand, I'm afraid, you got all of them wrong...

Nandan, person is correct, but not the number. That's why I mentioned I did not use a '+'. How many people are there in the online world with their names Barack or Obama? Compare that with names: John, or Sarah!

Piyush Sarode said...

4) Sarah Palin

saw this post little late though.

Piyush Sarode said...

1) Barack Obama
2) John McCain
3) Joe Biden
4) Sarah Palin
?

Ajit said...

Piyush, sahi jawaab!!