I used Altavista, then HotBot, then Google. I remember reading a Time Magazine article in 1998 about the "new wave" of search engines; it featured Google prett

I used Altavista, then HotBot, then Google. I remember reading a Time Magazine article in 1998 about the "new wave" of search engines; it featured Google pretty prominently, and I switched not long after that. Google's results were very much better than everything else, by a much greater margin than they are today. Before Google, the cliche that every search returns porn was actually pretty true.