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September 11th, 2007
Caching 9-11: A Look Back at Search
Today marks the 6th anniversary of the September 11th attacks – this year being the first time the date falls out on a Tuesday since then.
Here is a flashback to 9/11/01 in search:
Danny Sullivan was on the scene reporting how all the major search engines tried to assist in keeping the world informed with the latest news by both putting special messages on their homepage and serving cached versions of CNN coverage. (This was long before searchengineland.com came out).
CNET had reported on it as well, including the levels of availability on the major news sites.
The main real estate of the old Yahoo homepage was dedicated to the attacks:
May we never know such destruction again.
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Brian Wallace is the founder of NowSourcing, Inc., a social media agency since 2005 serving everyone from startups to the Fortune 500 and everything in between. Prior to founding NowSourcing, Brian worked in a variety of technical and marketing environments being a Chief Technology Officer for a noted media company. Brian holds an MBA and MS in Information Systems and resides in Louisville, KY with his wife and children. He started the group social media blog, Collective Thoughts and appears as a guest author on Mashable and Google Tutor.View all posts by Brian
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