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Exactly. In the 90's I remember using Lycos, Altavista, HotBot, AskJeeves and others which have faded from my memory. Then along came this new 'google' search
by 5hoom 15y ago
Exactly.
In the 90's I remember using Lycos, Altavista, HotBot, AskJeeves and others which have faded from my memory. Then along came this new 'google' search engine & I never went back to the others.
I still have a note scribbled on an old address book (the dead tree kind) saying "www.google.com - it's a new search engine".
It was certainly not 'the first'. Just the first really good one.
- colechristensen 15y agoHighway 61 was the greatest! It combined results from several of the popular engines and provided the best results until google came along. http://web.archive.org/web/19980205031323/http://www.highway61.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980205031323/http://www.highway... /nostalgia
- alex_c 15y agoSame with Ixquick. Looks like it's still around, and going for the "privacy" angle, like DDG. http://ixquick.com/ http://ixquick.com/