Kudos to Cristian Mezei's SEOpedia blog for a great list of secretive, hidden or long-forgotten pages behind Google's domain. There's more than 25 unique pages listed, but a few of my favorites include:
Google's Search Data from September 11, 2001
It's like an early peek into Google Trends.
And
Just look at the low quality Flash animation! I love it... Way to go Cristian, this is solid gold!
Still interesting to go back and read these old posts. Wow...back when Google Trends was just a rumor.
Google Places has a total different meaning now. It's fun to go back and look at old posts.
I am trying to understand those charts from 9/11... Do you think that searchers thought that there was live news online? Or were they simply trying to learn quickly about the WTC or Pentagon?
Part two Rand:
https://www.seopedia.org/seo-news/google/googl...
The 9/11 page is actually listing on here.
They are not the same pages, but stil.
Rand, if you take a look into that sitemaps.xml, you will find a lot of other interetsing stuff that I didn't blogged about, either because I thought they were already known (at least by me) either because I was too lazy.