Do you remember life before GOOGLE?

[radioouman]

webcrawler and altavista

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

I remember when Yahoo was a hand-compiled list by a couple of Stanford students.

 

[AU Tiger]

Yahoo or Altavista for web searches.
Dejanews for newsgroup searches.

 

[tigerbait]

Originally posted by: aircooled
infoseek before disney bought them and turned it into GO.com

same here

 

[RealWarlock]

Sleeping in my mother's womb.

 

[mpitts]

I remember when WebCrawler first came on the scene. I used it and Altavista many many years ago.

 

[chin311]

yahoo was the place to be before g00gle. now google > *

 

[NokiaDude]

Yeah, I remember life without Google. No fvcking left bar ads!!

 

[Scarpozzi]

I remember grabbing the internet yellow pages back in 1993....sucked.

 

[Turkey22]

Started with yahoo then moved to Ask Jeeves. Jeeves was very good.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: Maharaja
Altavista

Altavista used to be good, but it's a very good thing Google came along because at about the same time, Altavista's relevency went down the sh!tter.

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: Maharaja
Altavista

Altavista used to be good, but it's a very good thing Google came along because at about the same time, Altavista's relevency went down the sh!tter.

" "

 

[MainFramed]

Originally posted by: dighn
yahoo

that and ask jeeves

 

[911paramedic]

The real scary thing is the number of people I know that say "what's Google?"

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete It's where I go when I click the cute little house up there.

Same here...before that was excite or yahoo

I used these search engines also before google..

Ausm

 

[FrustratedUser]

Altavista, Evreka

 

[Whitecloak]

hotbot

 

[Soccer55]

Before Google, I actually used Yahoo for more than just their fantasy baseball league.

-Tom

 

[Parrotheader]

Infoseek was definitely the Google of its day back in the mid-90s. I loved that search engine and it was a shame to see it go under the way it did. AltaVista also had a nice run in the late 90s and turned in decent results.

The thing is, a lot of search engines turn in results on par with Google these days (like FAST - alltheweb.com, Teoma, Wisenut) yet most don't seem aware of it because they're so infatuated with Google. Personally, I think Google's results page is looking a bit dated and needs a little freshening up. I like simplicity, but their's is SO plain that it's hard to quickly cypher through the results text sometimes because it all bleeds together. Yahoo uses Google results and I've actually been using them as my search basis lately because I like the design of their results page better. With the exception of the paid listings at the top it's a lot easier to read and scan through IMO.

 

[arod]

Originally posted by: aircooled
infoseek before disney bought them and turned it into GO.com

Same here, Infoseek was the closest to google but its was still crappy compared to google.

 

[Pokey007]

webcrawler.com...are they even still around?

 

[xuanman]

Originally posted by: DanFungus

Originally posted by: jjones

Originally posted by: Spyro

Originally posted by: Xionide

Originally posted by: Maharaja
Altavista

Altavista used to be good, but it's a very good thing Google came along because at about the same time, Altavista's relevency went down the sh!tter.

" "

altavista was amazing. then there was google.

 

[hevnsnt]

hotbot and metacrawler

 

[oblizue]

Altavista

 

[CraigRT]

I used to use WebCrawler and Altavista... ah how much I love Google.