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

[aidanjm]

I used Alta Vista. I liked it for it's clean, no-nonense interface, and the fact you could use boolean logic in constructing your searches. And then someday, don't remember exactly why, I stopped using it and switched over to Google. The rest is history


edit: according to altavista's site, the first ever index of html web content was developed in 1995 (only 10 years ago!) by a team of boffins at DEC in Palo Alto, CA. This index was made available as the AltaVista search engine.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

Yahoo

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: xSkyDrAx
Yahoo

Yahoo mostly. I was partial to askjeeves as well

 

[stan394]

excite

 

[SynthDude2001]

altavista, I think

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
altavista, I think

It seems like so long ago. Altho really, it can't have been more than several years ago, right?

 

[pray4mojo]

yahoo and sometimes ask.com

 

[KLin]

infoseek and altavista

 

[Shawn]

Altavista. I never liked yahoo.

 

[jacob0401]

yahoo, and i still use it a lot...it is my homepage...

 

[Zee]

i lost my virginity to infoseek.com. I dumped it when it became go.com i went out with altavista. finally i married google.

 

[deadlyapp]

Dogpile before because it combed everyone...but ended up with nothing good lol.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: aidanjm

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
altavista, I think

It seems like so long ago. Altho really, it can't have been more than several years ago, right?

Probably 5 years at the most, I don't remember using Google before about 2001 or so. But yeah, it does seem like ages ago

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Zee
i lost my virginity to infoseek.com. I dumped it when it became go.com i went out with altavista. finally i married google.

slut

 

[PurdueRy]

lycos, I was cool like that

 

[AmdEmAll]

Alta Vista

 

[DainBramaged]

Combination of altavista and yahoo.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
Combination of altavista and yahoo.

What does that mean, "total confirmed kills"..?

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
Alta Vista

 

[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.

 

[stan394]

actually put it that way, a search page isn't really the 'homepage' or the first thing I thought about when browsing web. search is something deliberate you do, like online banking, not something as reflex as google now. in the past, usually i go directly to pages that I know of. It's google which brought me the habit of a 'search' page or a 'homepage'

 

[Blayze]

I remember using Webcrawler for awhile. Then mostly Excite and Yahoo.

 

[mrmann14]

Yahoo for the most part, but sometimes AskJeeves

 

[Calin]

Yahoo, and for some time Northern Light.

 

[Eli]

Infoseek.