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Almost everybody was already using Google by late 1999.
by svenfaw 6y ago
Almost everybody was already using Google by late 1999.
- klodolph 6y agoThat date is off, it was somewhere in the 2002-2004 range. Back in 1999 I think Yahoo! was the most popular, or maybe AOL’s search engine.
- wil421 6y agoNo they weren’t yet, you still had Yahoo, Alta Vista, Excite, Ask Jeeves and many others. Yahoo was probably the dominate one. Most households used AOL who just purchased MapQuest. The dot com bubble killed the competition.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoI remember my dad telling me about google and me telling him metacrawler.com FTW. This is the same guy who showed me the WWW on a lynx browser, and I scoffed that FTP was where it’s at.