Google can’t do everything
Dave Winer wants Google to provide first citations for terms on the web. He uses the term "blogroll" as an example.
I think Google is the wrong place to look for this. They’re not interested in history; they look to the present, not the past. If they had to maintain a complete record of the web in addition to keeping the most current state of the web, it might overwhelm them. History is not their purpose. Besides, there’s someone else already doing that. I think the right place to look for this feature is Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive. Unfortunately, you can’t search for content within the archive, just see what was there at URLs you can search for. So it’s the Archive that should be working on this, not Google.
Posted at 3:30 PM