Internet Archive has what Google looked like later in 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stanford.edu/

Here's a 1998 screenshot:

Here's screenshots of other top websites in 1997:

http://pandawhale.com/post/1184/what-10-top-websites-looked-like-in-1997

They all had a Borland Turbo Pascal kind of feel back then. Lots of Times New Roman.

Here's an artistic interpretation of what Google would have looked like in the 1980s:

http://pandawhale.com/post/2994/1980s-style-google-twitter-and-angry-birds

Only slightly more advanced than if Google Postcard launched earlier:

And here is a visual history of Google's home page, 1997 through 2013:

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-04-21-n63.html

Compare with "Baby Imgur", a screenshot from 2009:

Internet Archive has:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090225014924/http://imgur.com/

By comparison, the design of Reddit is pretty much unchanged since 2005:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1ax19f/talk_about_embarrassing_baby_pictures/c91miv6