Googling "Zelda" today offers a glimpse of how search worked in 1998

Ars Technica
By Ryan WhitwamNov 2, 2026, 2:52 pm106 ptsTrending
The year was 1998. Britney Spears topped the charts, Bill Clinton was impeached, and a couple of little websites called Google and Ars Technica came online. It was also the year Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Nintendo 64. Google, which has come to dominate the Internet (Ars is…

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