Sophie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} moorina) wrote,@ 2008-10-03 11:34:00 |
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Google heritage: Unusual names beginning with O rising to prominence in the last 8 years
For their tenth birthday, Google have gone vintage and put their January 2001 index back up online.
On a whim, I tried heritage googling "Obama". There are 4420 results, the second of which is a Japanese tourism site for what seems to be a spa in Nagasaki.
The second search of my series-on-a-whim was "Osama", which yields a slightly more respectable 69,600 results in Jan 2001. The first seems to offer a generously sized 6 meg email account: yourname@osama.0me.com. The FBI lists him as "Usama" in the 10 most wanted list.
Now, of course, the results are a little different (just a touch: "Obama" and "Osama"), though Osama seems to have jumped the shark of newsworthiness with three of the first four being for a 2003 Afghani film, and the image results being mostly parody & pop culture references.
Crossover: "Spa" now hits Osama's first page results (but I don't speak any Italian so I have no idea what it says), as does Obama, courtesy of "Obama Girl Kills Osama Bin Laden?" on youtube.
For their tenth birthday, Google have gone vintage and put their January 2001 index back up online.
On a whim, I tried heritage googling "Obama". There are 4420 results, the second of which is a Japanese tourism site for what seems to be a spa in Nagasaki.
The second search of my series-on-a-whim was "Osama", which yields a slightly more respectable 69,600 results in Jan 2001. The first seems to offer a generously sized 6 meg email account: yourname@osama.0me.com. The FBI lists him as "Usama" in the 10 most wanted list.
Now, of course, the results are a little different (just a touch: "Obama" and "Osama"), though Osama seems to have jumped the shark of newsworthiness with three of the first four being for a 2003 Afghani film, and the image results being mostly parody & pop culture references.
Crossover: "Spa" now hits Osama's first page results (but I don't speak any Italian so I have no idea what it says), as does Obama, courtesy of "Obama Girl Kills Osama Bin Laden?" on youtube.
