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A Year in Search 2015

Analytics — A year in search published annually by Google [Web App, Tech]
Analyticsest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 883 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
google.com
edge
direct origin
server
gws
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

A Year in Search 2015's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
The Lyftie Awardsanalyticssimilar100%40.00.0● live
NYPD Compstat 2.0analyticssimilar83%45.90.0● live
Bendada.comentertainmenttag-overlap80%18.20.0→ redirected
Online Nepali Newsentertainmenttag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Killed for Foodeducationtag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Is SF Flooded Yet?othertag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified
Daily Crunchcommunicationtag-overlap80%40.00.0● live
Freakonomics books list ✔️entertainmenttag-overlap80%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

1 disclosed funding round on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 12:09Z200google.comgws588alive
2026-08-18 13:18Z200google.comgws264alive
2026-08-11 00:14Z200google.comgws1313alive
2026-08-08 06:05Z200google.comgws530alive
2026-08-05 18:26Z200google.comgws988alive
2026-07-30 17:40Z200google.comgws622alive
2026-07-18 15:34Z200google.comgws866alive
2026-07-16 09:45Z200google.comgws1250alive
2026-07-10 10:34Z200google.comgws1811alive
2026-07-04 09:24Z200google.comgws2542alive
2026-06-23 13:43Z200google.comgws751alive
2026-06-21 22:00Z200google.comgws106alive
2026-06-20 20:08Z200google.comgws128alive
2026-06-19 16:47Z200google.comgws601alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · A Year in Search 2015 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/a-year-in-search-2015 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.