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I remember a search engine working like that, but I forget it's name. Dog something? It's ground breaking idea was, hey all these search engines kind of suck an

I remember a search engine working like that, but I forget it's name. Dog something? It's ground breaking idea was, hey all these search engines kind of suck and you have to go to about 10 of them to find what you want - so what if you enter one search term on our page and we'll Iframe in the results from 10 different search engines! I remember everyone at my university using it for quite a while, then google came out we were floored with the simplicity of it's home page (imagine what ten 1999 yahoo search competitor results crammed into one page looked like :D )

midasuni 3y ago
Dogpile
afstr 3y ago
Dogpile?
- laserDinosaur 3y ago
  Dogpile! That's it! Oh wow it even has it's own wikipedia page, and it's still online (albeit a very different site now).
epiccoleman 3y ago
Dogpile was the first search engine I ever used. My dad had a buddy who was into tech stuff, who showed us how to use it. Later I learned about AskJeeves from a cousin who showed me how to download emulators and ROMs (this would have been in the mid-late 90s). It's funny to think how much of my early tech experiences came from in person interactions. Dad's friend also built the first computer which I owned, which belonged to my grandma until she got a shinier Dell pre-built for a birthday. I was allowed to "purchase" that machine for the price of two free mows (so $40). This was a steal by any metric. It became the foundation for basically all my computer learning into my preteen and teen years and the centerpiece of my bedroom. I have many fond memories of kicking back in my bedroom with ZSNES or bootleg Family Guy episodes. Idk that I'd really connected until today how much of an influence that friend of my dad's had on my life, just through a few simple acts of thinking the net was cool and sharing with my family.

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I remember a search engine working like that, but I forget it's name. Dog something? It's ground breaking idea was, hey all these search engines kind of suck an

by laserDinosaur 3y ago

midasuni 3y ago
Dogpile
afstr 3y ago
Dogpile?
- laserDinosaur 3y ago
  Dogpile! That's it! Oh wow it even has it's own wikipedia page, and it's still online (albeit a very different site now).
epiccoleman 3y ago
Dogpile was the first search engine I ever used. My dad had a buddy who was into tech stuff, who showed us how to use it. Later I learned about AskJeeves from a cousin who showed me how to download emulators and ROMs (this would have been in the mid-late 90s). It's funny to think how much of my early tech experiences came from in person interactions. Dad's friend also built the first computer which I owned, which belonged to my grandma until she got a shinier Dell pre-built for a birthday. I was allowed to "purchase" that machine for the price of two free mows (so $40). This was a steal by any metric. It became the foundation for basically all my computer learning into my preteen and teen years and the centerpiece of my bedroom. I have many fond memories of kicking back in my bedroom with ZSNES or bootleg Family Guy episodes. Idk that I'd really connected until today how much of an influence that friend of my dad's had on my life, just through a few simple acts of thinking the net was cool and sharing with my family.