The internet has become such an important part of our lives. We book our holidays with it, read the news with it, some of us even find our life partners with it! And lets face it, it's changed the world of real estate! But how many of us were saying "oh just look it up on Google" ten years ago?
Not many of us, because a decade ago Google was still all new and shiny, just launched to the world wide web and probably none the wiser that it would become the world's favourite website.
To celebrate Google's tenth birthday, they've brought back the 2001 version for us to play with.
Searching 'property blog' on the 2001 archive brings up 2,310 results (of which none are actually property blogs) compared with today's 13,600,000 results for property blog, most of which are pretty darn accurate.
ActiveRain must have just been the apple of Jon Washburn's eye back in 2001, as ActiveRain only got two results on old Google...and neither of these were property related ;-) Today, you're looking at 1,810,000 results for our favourite real estate blogging community.
Searching for 'Globrix' (the property search engine I work for here in the UK) in 2001 would have brought you, well, nothing. Search for Globrix today and there are around 762,000 results.
'Real estate' has always been a popular search term it seems, even in 2001 you could have found 11.5million results, but compare that to today's 624million results and you can see that the world of online real estate has come along way. Buyers are now spoilt for choice when looking for property for sale.
I have to say I was impressed to see that when googling myself (not as dirty as it sounds) on the 2001 version of Google I found two accurate results, one a review of BBC comedy The League of Gentleman and the other a review of a new Destiny's Child album...what an uber cool 14 year old I was, hmmmm.
Go search crazy on the old Google here, and sit back and think how of how far we've come in just seven years.
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