Through the magic of the Internet Archive via their Wayback Machine, we can look back at Google and "what a wild strange trip its been".
From the very simplistic design on 11-11-1998 you will see that they had a mere 25 million pages (soon to be much bigger) in the Google Search Engine Prototype. Then there is the "might work some of the time" Alpha Google (1-25-1999). Uck ... gag me! Glad this design went into the waste basket.
Fast forward to 04-23-1999 and they are wanting to know if you feel lucky! Well, do ya? Special Stanford and Linux searches are part of more Google...
Lets move way ahead to 05-11-2000 and see that Google was voted Best Search Engine by Yahoo Internet Life. Secretly they are still saying that, I'll bet.
At or around this time, you can get Google Buttons, three Google Web Search Plans including the Gold Plan for $2000 a year, they are hiring, and Google goes wireless.
Advancing on to 09-19-2000, you will see the hallmark Google as we know it today (with minor changes). Not much change in the layout over the last four years. They have added more tools, yes. But Google seemed to settle on what was going to be at this point in time.
Thanks to SEbasic for inspiration on this article.
UPDATE: Gary Price stopped by in the comments to let us know that he has a page of Google Milestone Pages which include Backrub (1997), Google's First Press Release (1999) and links to key documents and patents.
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