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https://www.lycos.com/ https://www.lycos.com/ is still kicking well.
by zerr 4y ago
https://www.lycos.com/ https://www.lycos.com/ is still kicking well.
- soupfordummies 4y agoWhoa, it has Tripod too!
- themodelplumber 4y agoA subsidiary of Kakao Corporation. (Last I checked)
- roarcher 4y agoNow that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
- andrewstuart2 4y agoReminded me I used to prefer https://www.dogpile.com/ https://www.dogpile.com/. Also still around.
- roydivision 4y agoIf we’re playing this game, https://www.altavista.com https://www.altavista.com, which seems to be a Yahoo property now.
- sgt 4y agoMy fingers still try to type altavista.digital.com Seems like only yesterday!
- darrenf 4y ago> which seems to be a Yahoo property now Yahoo! bought Overture - the then owners of Altavista - 20 years ago.
- smcl 4y agoWeird, for me altavista.com issues a 307 redirect to https://guce.altavista.com/consent?brandType=nonEu&gcrumb=J4vFeCk&done=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.altavista.com%2F https://guce.altavista.com/consent?brandType=nonEu&gcrumb=J4... which fails a DNS lookup I still remember my school Computing teacher introducing the internet and saying that AltaVista was by far and away the best search engine (around 2000 to 2001-ish)
- kolinko 4y agoAnd Zombo.com is still alive and well. Even managed to transition off flash.
- _2d30 4y agoTried searching for "google" and it returned no results. Fun
- 2-718-281-828 4y agojust use "gooogle" instead
- irrational 4y agoWow. Ask Jeeves is still around too. https://www.askjeeves.net/ https://www.askjeeves.net/
- eurticket 4y agoThey'll have Chatgpt Jeeves soon, I hope.
- orra 4y agoNah, Ask Jeeves became ask.com. The website you found is a Google Custom Search, and it doesn't even tell us which company is running the website.
- irrational 4y agoWell, that's confusing. The one, that says Ask Jeeves, isn't, and another site, that doesn't say Ask Jeeves, is.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoTucows
- cpach 4y agoEven some old Angelfire web sites are still online. Quite impressive IMHO.
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- Dalewyn 4y agoIt's kind of awesome in a warm and fuzzy way to still see Angelfire and Tripod kicking around.
- ACS_Solver 4y agoLycos is not a relevant site any longer but after clicking through, one of the first things I notice is how they get temperature units wrong in the weather display. They show the weather for my correct location, which like most locations should use Celsius but the site shows Fahrenheit. Bad. Maybe it's tied to the display language? But no, switching to non-English languages keeps the temperature in Fahrenheit as well. Having this kind of ridiculous thing in 2023 in a website that pretends to adapt to your location is enough for me to write it off as low-quality trash.
- sethammons 4y agoI know a guy, CEO of a company we all know, wont take financial advice from a guy with a beard and another who wouldn't take advice from someone without wooden soles on their shoes. It is interesting what signals we take for credibility, yours being temperature units on a website.
- pc86 4y agoThose two guys are just spouting boomer nonsense better left in the 50s, whereas this is "you didn't take 30 seconds to test manually, or 3 minutes to write an automated test for this extremely common and predictable thing." Not exactly comparable.
- JohnFen 4y agoI was once turned down for a position because (I later learned) my last name is also often used as a first name. The quote was "you can't trust someone with two first names".
- ACS_Solver 4y agoTo clarify, it's not the temperature unit per se, that's just the visible (and common) manifestation of the underlying problem - a website that ostensibly supports an international audience, with geo-location and a dozen language options, gets the basics of i18n wrong. Other examples I've seen are automatically switching to the wrong currency or having wrong translations that are obviously automatic. I have no problem with websites that are clearly aimed at users from a specific country, which is often the US. That's fine. But things like this really erode my trust in a site, in my mind it creates a suspicion - if you explicitly show me you can provide services in my country and then get the basics about my country wrong, how can I trust your service works properly here?
- egorfine 4y agoaltavista redirects to yahoo