What was your favorite search engine BEFORE Google...
A simple question - what was your favorite search engine BEFORE Google or were you always on Google? This might be one for those of you who actually used 56k modems like!
I was a Altavista fanboy, every computer I touched got Altavista whether you liked it or not! I hate Yahoo! always have and I was a bit disappointed when Altavista got taken over by Yahoo.
Those of you that don't know what Altavista looked like this is picture of it!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Go88C_d8bEs/TN1sWzoF4DI/AAAAAAAAAEk/_9_Cis-OKK4/s1600/altavista.jpg
So what did you use?
I was a Altavista fanboy, every computer I touched got Altavista whether you liked it or not! I hate Yahoo! always have and I was a bit disappointed when Altavista got taken over by Yahoo.
Those of you that don't know what Altavista looked like this is picture of it!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Go88C_d8bEs/TN1sWzoF4DI/AAAAAAAAAEk/_9_Cis-OKK4/s1600/altavista.jpg
So what did you use?
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Vask3n
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Also used Altavista, and others like Yahoo and AskJeeves (yes, lol)Working on MS-ISA at Western Governor's University -
DevilWAH
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Wow Altavista, that brings back some memories, Google really did sound the death toll of a lot of search engines. You forget what a huge strep it was when it came along.- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Asif Dasl
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Please don't say you actually used AskJeeves!!! <jumps out of window>Also used Altavista, and others like Yahoo and AskJeeves (yes, lol)
This is just for you....
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petedude
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I was a Altavista fanboy, every computer I touched got Altavista whether you liked it or not! I hate Yahoo! always have and I was a bit disappointed when Altavista got taken over by Yahoo.
Do you have 33 1/3 RPM LPs laying around, too?
Really, I dug Altavista too. Talk about a blast from the past to hear that name again. They were the better search engine for researching technical matters back in the day.
Now, where'd I put that OS/2 disc? My Turbo Pascal book?
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DevilWAH
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I did that Bing vs Google challenge, tried it 4 times and the best result I got was 4 to 1 in Google's favor lol
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
- An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties. It means that its going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming.
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DevilWAH
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we really need people to put their ages on here to, remember altavista getting released, and dam it that was back in 1995!!!
- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
- An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties. It means that its going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming.
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cyberguypr
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Back in the day I used Lycos, Excite and Altavista. From that went to Yahoo and nowadays use 90% Google, 10% Bing. -
Asif Dasl
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I'm not that old, I'm only 33 like..Do you have 33 1/3 RPM LPs laying around, too?
but i did use cassette tapes - FTW!
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MTciscoguy
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Do you have 33 1/3 RPM LPs laying around, too?
Yup still have quite a few of them, in addition to hundreds of 45's and 78's, of course now a days, they normally get played on a USB turntable attached to a computer, but I still have a old tube amp, pre-amp and a nice set of Bose 901 series 3 speakers that get used once in a while. Of course, until google came along, my search engine of choice was Altavista.Current Lab: 4 C2950 WS, 1 C2950G EI, 3 1841, 2 2503, Various Modules, Parts and Pieces. Dell Power Edge 1850, Dell Power Edge 1950. -
Priston
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I went back and forth between google and yahoo for awhile, like 11 or 12 years ago. Now I just use google.A.A.S. in Networking Technologies
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wastedtime
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A long time ago I used Hotbot primarily then would use yahoo and lycos if I didn't find what I was looking for there. That was between 14-17 years ago......then yahoo was my primary until i got on the google bandwagon I think it was about 2 years after its' launch.
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AverageJoe
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Yahoo was the biggie, but I remember also using Webcrawler and Dogpile, circa mid-90s.
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stryder144
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Altavista and Yahoo. I remember doing side-by-side searches, using two instances of Netscape, just to see which one was "better". Altavista always had a huge lead on Yahoo when it came to results. Damn. I miss Altavista.The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. ~ Leo Buscaglia
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wd40
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cyberguypr wrote: »Back in the day I used Lycos, Excite and Altavista. From that went to Yahoo and nowadays use 90% Google, 10% Bing.
I used Lycos, Excite and Altavista "in this order", now it is 40% Yahoo and 60% Google. -
jvrlopez
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MSN, Altavista, Yahoo, and then Google.
Anyone remember those sidebar (like the favorite/history side panel) search engines in IE? I can't imagine using those now.And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high. ~Ayrton Senna
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jibbajabba
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Lycos .. I also used Astalavista.box.sk (for stuff ... and things ...)My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com
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JoJoCal19
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I was a huge Altavista guy back in the day. I also used Lycos as well, and used Yahoo for the directories. Now it's purely Google (more by habit than anything else).
I'm only 32, but man I miss the old days of the internet, Geocities!!Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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5ekurity
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Yahoo, Webcrawler and Dogpile...and yes I loaded up Netscape Navigator on the school computers I worked on because IE was just unbearable.
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jibbajabba
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Anyone remember Netscape Navigator?
Oh yea ... Forgot about that .. Geee I fell old ..My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com -
jibbajabba
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Please don't say you actually used AskJeeves!!!
Bloody hate them. I don't think necessarily it is a bad search engine. But I think their aggressive marketing, being distributed with every frikin piece of software on the planet, sometimes not even by choice or cheeky sub menus, ruined it .. I just see that logo and I'd love to trash the screen.My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com -
colemic
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Metacrawler, infoseek for me. Metacrawler consistently had better search results than anyone else at the time (for me at least.)Working on: staying alive and staying employed -
JasminLandry
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Being born in '91, I don't even know some of the search engines you guys mentioned. I believe I remember using Yahoo back in elementary school, but it's been mostly Google. -
JoJoCal19
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Metacrawler, infoseek for me. Metacrawler consistently had better search results than anyone else at the time (for me at least.)
Oh snap! How could I forget Infoseek!!JasminLandry wrote: »Being born in '91, I don't even know some of the search engines you guys mentioned. I believe I remember using Yahoo back in elementary school, but it's been mostly Google.
Sad are the ones that never got to know blowing out NES tapes and connecting to AOL with dial up modem lol.Have: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, eJPT, GCIA, GSEC, CCSP, CCSK, AWS CSAA, AWS CCP, OCI Foundations Associate, ITIL-F, MS Cyber Security - USF, BSBA - UF, MSISA - WGU
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matai
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Dogpile, Ms Dewey:
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