Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable perspective builder.<p>I personally like news articles that have been digitized that were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly. For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results.<p>I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
I wonder how this deals with bad data. Often when searching for a term that was invented in the last few years, I'll find search results dating back to the 1990s because someone inserted new keywords on an old article. Ugh.
Where do the dates come from?<p>The results (after all the ads) for “COVID-19” claimed to be from 2001, but were clearly more recent.<p>Edit: is the date the first time the URL was seen, but the search terms match on current content?