Google can pull up [a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001](http:\/\/www.google.com\/search2001.html). From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear [it’s not an exact version](http:\/\/www.google.com\/search2001faq.html), but that they can do it _at all_ is impressive.<\/p>\n
Could your company pull up a backup of **anything** from seven years ago? Let alone make it functional in the same context it once was? I surprise people whenever they learn I keep emails for as long as I do. <\/p>\n
Anyone who didn’t believe they are keeping a [Time Machine-esque](http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/timemachine.html) index of every version of any page ever crawled should be convinced now. Just like a lot of folks [want BackRub](http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/004563.php), I bet a lot of folks would love access to a searchable and far more comprehensive internet archive than the, well, [_actual_ Internet Archive](http:\/\/www.archive.org\/web\/web.php).<\/p>\n
Things I’ve learned about my sites from playing around with this?<\/p>\n
* I did not rank quite as well as I remember ranking.
\n* I abused duplicate title tags, a lot.
\n* My general design style has evolved but is still recognizable (probably a bad thing!).
\n* I was reminded of some of our old domains and the odd subdirectory structure of the different web projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Google can pull up [a version of their search index from as far back as January 2001](http:\/\/www.google.com\/search2001.html). From an IT point of view, this is pretty amazing. They make it clear [it’s not an exact version](http:\/\/www.google.com\/search2001faq.html), but that they can do it _at all_ is impressive. Could your company pull up a backup of **anything**…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,10,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}