Search Engines Still Think It’s 2007
Websites everywhere let their copyright footers go out of date, but you don’t expect it of the bigger, more sophisticated sites that could easily justify the 5 minutes it would take to create an automated solution. Especially search engines which crawl, index and rank billions upon billions of web pages with some of the most advanced technology in the world, built by some of the most sophisticated teams of researchers, PhDs, and programmers seen to man. So here it is, January 2nd, 2008 and all five of the top engines still think it is 2007:
Click on the search engine images to see if they’ve updated their site yet, then add a comment when they do so we can document which engines fix it first.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Google has changed it to 2008
January 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Thanks Neyne - good catch. I just checked Y!, MSN, AOL & Ask and they are still stuck in ‘07. It will be interesting to keep an eye on.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Is all you need…
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
&rt;? echo date(’Y'); ?<
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Google obviously read your post!
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Yahoo has now seen the light
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 am
Nice thinking Dustin, one advice make it a bigger post and add supportive links to it so that it could be seen and linked by people.
All the best!
January 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 am
While the Google frontpage has changed it, iGoogle, Google Maps, Google Products, and Gmail are still back in 2007. You’d think with all their cash they’d at least spend a couple of minutes to fix it.
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
Actually, Yahoo is still stuck in ‘07. The Y! homepage is ‘08, but the engine is still ‘07. Take a look: http://search.yahoo.com
January 7th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Yahoo’s got it right now. Welcome to 2008! Now we’re just waiting for MSN, AOL and ASK (note: MSN/Live has ‘08 on their search result pages, but not on the homepage yet).
Funny how the updates are happening in order of search engine popularity so far.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Looks like everyone is caught up now except Microsoft. We’ll see if they straighten it out by February.
February 14th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Hahahaha… Don’t try this at Dutch sites, some even still quote 2005! Big sites, loads of traffic and PR5 or higher… Fun stuff :p
May 21st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Interesting to see this kind of things still go sort of “manually”, even at monster sites like Google and Yahoo.