SEO Through The Years: A Retrospective

From 2002:

"My perception when talking to Cutts was that importance (the popularity and relevance of the backlink) counts more than the number of backlinks."

I love -- earnestly, not sarcastically -- that Cutts was an idealist even back in 2002, when link schemes were entering their golden age and it was still 10 years before Penguin closed that door.

This starts in 1999, and I remember (but don't miss) the good old days circa 95 and 96...when gaming a search engine was all about cramming as many keywords as possible at the bottom of the document, and going berzerk on your meta description tag.

I keep trying to read the 2014 item, but the page keeps refreshing to the 2011 item full-frame.

This on Firefox.

Seems to be OK on Chrome.

Is this a "requires Chrome" site, like Google+ Photos? I think such sites should show little logos, like back in the good old days of IE. /s