#internet conservation

Imagine a website that is just google - but you only get the search results you would in 2020. What would people search? Coronavirus? Presidential election? Things that hadn't happened yet, like something about Luigi Mangione? If you looked up "DOGE," would you get a meme, or Dogecoin? Because you definitely wouldn't get "Department of Government Efficiency."

Would we even be able to recreate one single day of a search engine?

I wonder what would happen if someone could catalog even just the names of the first page of search results for one day on a brand new google account. That's still so much information. Do we even have servers big enough to handle something of that scale? I mean there's already bots that scrape google for information and massive community projects, and server farms big enough to host all of today's Google right now.

Just think about how cool this would be for Anthropology and Internet Conservation

As cool as the Wayback Machine is, it's hard to catalog more than just subgroups of people outside of a news website's feed.

Google's search results are such a good tool to see not just which cuturally significant events are happening, but also people's reactions to them. And even outside of that, relevant information related to it.