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The early days of the internet were dominated by InfoSeek Net Search, then later on Alta Vista was the search engine of choice. Then later on, Google appeared
by Dwedit 3y ago
The early days of the internet were dominated by InfoSeek Net Search, then later on Alta Vista was the search engine of choice. Then later on, Google appeared and everyone else couldn't compete.
- lttlrck 3y agoThat's closer to an abridged history of "World Wide Web" search engines. The internet was decades old when Infoseek appeared.
- jedrek 3y agothe internet was decades old when http appeared.
- blahyawnblah 3y agoWas it DEC than ran Alta Vista? They were involved in some search engine
- coobird 3y agoIndeed.[1] I recall using it as my main search engine at altavista.digital.com before they moved to get its own domain at altavista.com. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista
- macintux 3y agoI remember when AltaVista was the best, and despairing because it was so terrible. At a dinner party, we were arguing about how to move forward with discovery on the web, because the situation was so dire. Someone was arguing for keyword registration, a la AOL. I really, really hope that someone wasn’t me; I’ve convinced myself over the years it wasn’t, but I didn’t have any better ideas, just knew that wouldn’t work.
- demondemidi 3y agoI was using Archie and gopher in the late 80s. Do you mean web search instead of internet search?
- jjav 3y ago> The early days of the internet were dominated by InfoSeek Net Search That's 20-some years after the early days of the Internet.
- defrost 3y agoI'd been using the internet for 14 years before InfoSeek Net Search appeared in 1994, this is honestly the first time I've heard of it. I don't even consider myself an early user of the internet either, the people I learnt from had already been using it a good while.