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AltaVista straight to Google? You missed out on some great stuff! What about Webcrawler, Hotbot or Metacrawler?
by spaghetti_taco 10y ago
AltaVista straight to Google? You missed out on some great stuff! What about Webcrawler, Hotbot or Metacrawler?
- distances 10y agoI remember trying out HotBot, Lycos, Northern Light, and the Raging Search (which was apparently also from AltaVista). But I didn't really use any of them that much, it was straight to Google if I recall correctly. That was a while ago though and I don't have my browser history saved, so who knows exactly :)
- drdeadringer 10y agoHotbot was my favorite. I even had an email address with them. When they were bought out, I remember thinking "Damn, now I have to find a new search engine to use".
- soylentcola 10y agoSo many times at work, misspelling "hotbot.com" and typing "hotbat.com" which brought you to a porn site with some half-clothed woman suggestively holding a baseball bat on the splash page. Pretty sure it was just a generic porn site (never really looked into it) and the "bat" thing was just a thinly layered gag to make an excuse for taking advantage of the common typo.
- Scoundreller 10y agoHeh, I just checked out whitehouse.com (not .gov!), which now says (with no images): WhiteHouse.com Official Site Celebrating our 19th Anniversary (1997-2016) World's Most Famous Adult Site coming back Summer 2016