Do you remember what search engine you used before Google became the standard?

[blurredvision]

Alta Vista was my search of choice. A guy at work still claims Alta Vista to be king of all, and says Google is still behind. Of course, this coming from a man who refuses to even use Google, so who knows?

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: Eli
Infoseek.

 

[JoPh]

hotbot

 

[vegetation]

Infoseek was pretty good until Disney messed with it (they lost a combined $billion on go.com so they paid for it hard).

 

[Crono]

I never liked Lycos or Altavista. I used Hotbot first, then Yahoo, and now Google. Yahoo is as good as Google, IMO, but Google loads faster and has less clutter.

 

[RandomFool]

Dogpile was my friend..that an ask.com jeeves was my homeboy.

 

[SagaLore]

I used Infoseek. I loved infoseek. Then they were bought out by Go and one of their revisions was saturated with news and ads, and I got sick of it.

 

[andy9o]

alta vista

 

[FeuerFrei]

I never could bring myself to use a site named "Yahoo!". Never used it.

Started out with Webcrawler and Altavista. Then started using Excite a lot and set up my own customized portal page and free email that I still use.

These days though it's all about the great Googly Moogly.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Before, and after, and always... Yahoo!

 

[PHiuR]

YaHoo!

 

[arcenite]

I honestly do not remember. I was stuck on AOL for a while in my early internet years, then when I did get cable, I believe I used to use go.com. It's such a blur anymore. GOOGLE FOR LIFE.

 

[Rastus]

webcrawler > hotbot > google

 

[Alchemist99]

No one used Copernic?

 

[nakedfrog]

I started using Lycos around 92-93 and stuck with it up until about 2001, when I finally switched to Google.

 

[KoolDrew]

I probably used AOL's since we had AOL a long time ago.

 

[Trente]

Altavista baby...

 

[Electric Amish]

Dogpile.

 

[mcvickj]

Alta Vista.

 

[GeoffS]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
These days though it's all about the great Googly Moogly.

I miss Frank!

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

metacrawler

 

[LeiZaK]

AltaVista...

 

[archiloco]

another vote for metacrawler, used to be able to see what everybody else was searching for.

edit:::::hehe still can see what everybody else is looking for there was someone looking for "raging grannies" lol

 

[MajorMullet]

Excite

 

[bigrash]

I used Yahoo and I still do