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What search engine did you use before google become ubiquitous?

I used Lycos back in the day.

dogpile was my favorite

maybe Yahoo who remembers

think i used google since it launched

before that altavista

metacrawler in the mid 90s i think.

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

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Originally Posted by Cyandin (Post 14794809)

What search engine did you use before google become ubiquitous?

Gimme a minute. brb

Gotta go google ubiquitous.

1 alta vista
2 excite
3 hotbot

now i just search at google and click on the wiki link.

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Originally Posted by Just_Dave (Post 14794860)

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

fuck, i forgot about altavista, i used quite a bit too, hehe

back in the day depending on what you needed to find you needed to use all the usual suspects.

Alta Vista. They had a stripped down version (can't remember what it was called) that was just a search bar (wonder where Google got that idea?). You could use it instead of going through the whole portal. At that time they were all going to portals to monetize their traffic, so this was a cool option.

astavista i think it was, and yahoo

i cant rmemeber, hotbot maybe???

Excite is what I used

http://www.altavista.com/

We should bring it back - like porchmonkeys!

i used altavista.com but when i wanted to find something that was hard to find i always went to hotbot.com

yahoo and warezcrawler :)

I vaguely recall using altavista, hotbot and sometimes excite

Library card system.

wow I forgot excite lol. I used yahoo

Excite, Yahoo, AltaVista,...etc..

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Originally Posted by Pete-KT (Post 14794929)

Excite is what I used

hah anyone else remember the adult check/excite deal?

AltaVista back in the day

altavista and hotbot

yahoo, lycos, dogpile

I was using Hotbot before I switched to Google... I actually liked it better than very early Google.

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Originally Posted by Just_Dave (Post 14794860)

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

same here haha

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Originally Posted by mikeyddddd (Post 14794867)

Gimme a minute. brb

Gotta go google ubiquitous.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

i used dmoz a lot too, now that i think about it. shit, maybe i should pick it back up again.

goto.com... hotbot.com as well..

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Originally Posted by tony404 (Post 14794817)

dogpile was my favorite

same here

altavista.com and metacrawler.com were my favs. at the time.

AltaVista.,Excite,Yahoo

alta fucking vista. I loved that baby.

Yahoo I think, it was sooooo long ago now.

Web Crawler and then Yahoo!.

1) Metacrawler
2) Webcrawler
3) Altavista
4) DMZ w/ Yahoo

yahoo wasn't a search engine back then, neither was dmoz

I've used Yahoo from the very beginning and still do. I figure that it will find what I am looking for just as well as any other SE.