[HN Gopher] Show HN: Oldest Search - Search for the oldest resul... ___________________________________________________________________ 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) (HTM) web link (www.oldestsearch.com) (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: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-05-10 23:00 UTC)