I 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

I 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 :)