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

[Preyhunter]

Infoseek was awesome at the time because it would let you search within results. None of the others at the time did that as I recall. Search sucked between the time Infoseek got screwed by Disney and Google came out.

 

[moshquerade]

i don't remember life before google

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: SirPsycho
I used Altavista all the time. Clean interface, no BS. It's too bad it fell so far behind. Only thing I use it for now is the translation functionality, although I don't use it for that much anymore since Google does it too now.

google translates now?

 

[TBone48]

Lycos, then hotbot, now Google.

 

[jdub1107]

Altavista first, then Yahoo

 

[FrustratedUser]

Altavista.

 

[Udel]

Alta Vista, Hotbot

 

[Bryophyte]

Dogpile

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Altavista had a HUGE index compared to Yahoo.

 

[flexy]

astalavista....ehrm..ok j/k....LYCOS

 

[xcript]

AltaVista, Yahoo! & AlltheWeb.

 

[Aves]

Hotbot

 

[ggnl]

Earliest I remember using was Alta Vista and Infoseek. I eventually moved on to Yahoo, and then finally Google.

 

[skypilot]

Hotbot then Metacrawler when it came out...

 

[Rookie]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
altavista, I think

and jeeves before it got retarded.