[HN Gopher] Show HN: Oldest Search - Search for the oldest resul...
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       Show HN: Oldest Search - Search for the oldest result on internet
        
       Author : jarrenae
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2022-05-10 22:21 UTC (38 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.oldestsearch.com)
        
       | jarrenae wrote:
       | Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets
       | the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first
       | entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable
       | perspective builder.
       | 
       | I personally like news articles that have been digitized that
       | were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results
       | don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly.
       | For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results.
       | 
       | I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase
       | human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
        
         | marginalia_nu wrote:
         | > "Covid" shows recent results.
         | 
         | Covid wasn't around until 2019, so I don't imagine what you'd
         | expect to find earlier than that? It's funny how it mis-dates a
         | lot of the entires as being from decades earlier though.
        
       | crickcreek wrote:
       | search for 'green tea' puts sam's club at the top of the list for
       | it's lipton diet citrus brand. it was posted in 1977 and is still
       | for sale!
       | 
       | Must be some miraculous high falutin green ass gingery spice tea
       | that will make a camel fart louder than a donkey oinks.
       | 
       | =p
       | 
       | I love this@ _._
        
         | jart wrote:
         | Typed in "Seneca" and I got Quest Diagnostics in Seneca PA,
         | probably because the office opened in 1975. How it knows that I
         | don't know.
        
       | nomel wrote:
       | I wonder what the cost per search result is on a query like this,
       | compared to the average query. I can only imagine the cache
       | misses, and deep digging, that this is causing!
        
       | no_no_no_no wrote:
        
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