Comment by ronilan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ronilan | Hacker News Reader

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Your link is gold. A historic artifact.

Amazing how clear the writing is, how simple the message. That’s, like, totally not the corpspeak Goog emits now on a daily basis.

So, let’s do some digging.

Earliest version of url dates back 4+ years. https://web.archive.org/web/20151213182805/https://www.googl...

Things were a little better than, but not by much. This has to be earlier.

Ah, here is:

https://books.google.ca/books?id=oNT3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA289&lpg=P...

This page is from a book by Douglas Edwards, employee number 59 published in 2011.

The content of OP url, written by same, is dated March 2002.

That company no longer exists. Goog should remove it from their website.

Excellent sleuthing -- makes sense that the message is so old. There's no way they would produce something like this today.

They'll fire all the people who made them this way, and get back to that, if they want to survive the next decade at their scale.

(And OT, or maybe not, as far as I can recall, AdWords was still CPM back then)

The google books link appears to have died: "You have either reached a page that is unavailable for viewing or reached your viewing limit for this book"

(I'm fairly certain that I have not viewed anything from this book, nor any book for that matter, this year.)

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky%3A+...

Is it ironic that the websites often involved in freeing up the knowledge ends up getting hosted in Russia?

The three IP's they return when you do a DNS lookup originate form Rumania, Switzerland and the island country Saint Kitts and Nevis.

The site was created by Russians though, just not sure it is hosted there anymore.

Imagine the sheer sociopathic effort it took to overtake Google. The power plays, the backstabbing, the greed. Oh, to be a fly on those walls.

OOPs - I did the same thing before reading your post...

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