I found my first email to Google. From the year 2000. Since then I've worked through five companies, but Joan Braddi is still here.
And since I'm on the inside now I was able to find the that cl #8802 referenced the work I was doing at the time, which was adding search to www.redhat.com. (Or Red hat, as you can see here)
I do have to wonder if Red Hat's slow payment of their 5k+ contract fees hurt the early Google, or what might have happened had Google gotten into the RPM search field as I suggested to them way back when...
And for a real blast from the past see the search stats that were emailed out monthly(!)