What search engine did you use before google become ubiquitous? - GoFuckYourself.com

Cyandin · 09-23-2008, 01:36 PM

I used Lycos back in the day.

tony286 · 09-23-2008, 01:37 PM

dogpile was my favorite

sweetredhead · 09-23-2008, 01:38 PM

maybe Yahoo who remembers

Manowar · 09-23-2008, 01:38 PM

think i used google since it launched

before that altavista

CyberHustler · 09-23-2008, 01:39 PM

I forgot...

uno · 09-23-2008, 01:44 PM

metacrawler in the mid 90s i think.

Just_Dave · 09-23-2008, 01:44 PM

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

mikeyddddd · 09-23-2008, 01:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyandin

What search engine did you use before google become ubiquitous?

Gimme a minute. brb

Gotta go google ubiquitous.

MichaelP · 09-23-2008, 01:45 PM

Gopher ?

ADL Colin · 09-23-2008, 01:45 PM

1 alta vista
2 excite
3 hotbot

now i just search at google and click on the wiki link.

Cyandin · 09-23-2008, 01:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Just_Dave

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

fuck, i forgot about altavista, i used quite a bit too, hehe

cheekycherry · 09-23-2008, 01:52 PM

Yapoo......

Brad · 09-23-2008, 01:52 PM

back in the day depending on what you needed to find you needed to use all the usual suspects.

dready · 09-23-2008, 01:53 PM

Alta Vista. They had a stripped down version (can't remember what it was called) that was just a search bar (wonder where Google got that idea?). You could use it instead of going through the whole portal. At that time they were all going to portals to monetize their traffic, so this was a cool option.

TommyM · 09-23-2008, 01:53 PM

astavista i think it was, and yahoo

Fletch XXX · 09-23-2008, 01:53 PM

i cant rmemeber, hotbot maybe???

Pete-KT · 09-23-2008, 01:53 PM

Excite is what I used

cykoe6 · 09-23-2008, 02:20 PM

Alta Vista

Cyandin · 09-23-2008, 02:24 PM

http://www.altavista.com/

We should bring it back - like porchmonkeys!

moeloubani · 09-23-2008, 02:29 PM

i used altavista.com but when i wanted to find something that was hard to find i always went to hotbot.com

qxm · 09-23-2008, 02:34 PM

altavista ...

bobby666 · 09-23-2008, 03:03 PM

yahoo and warezcrawler

xmas13 · 09-23-2008, 05:23 PM

AltaVista.

Jim_Gunn · 09-23-2008, 05:27 PM

I vaguely recall using altavista, hotbot and sometimes excite

Mike Semen · 09-23-2008, 05:29 PM

Library card system.

IllTestYourGirls · 09-23-2008, 05:29 PM

wow I forgot excite lol. I used yahoo

Marcus Aurelius · 09-23-2008, 05:30 PM

Excite, Yahoo, AltaVista,...etc..

uno · 09-23-2008, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete-KT

Excite is what I used

hah anyone else remember the adult check/excite deal?

ExLust · 09-23-2008, 05:32 PM

Lycos and Yahoo.

Juicy Aaron · 09-23-2008, 05:33 PM

AltaVista back in the day

phasic · 09-23-2008, 05:33 PM

altavista and hotbot

bufferover · 09-23-2008, 05:41 PM

up up up

MaDalton · 09-23-2008, 05:43 PM

yahoo, lycos, dogpile

bhutocracy · 09-23-2008, 05:44 PM

I was using Hotbot before I switched to Google... I actually liked it better than very early Google.

Yngwie · 09-23-2008, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Just_Dave

alta vista , hotbot , webcrawler , lycos .....................lol

same here haha

Manowar · 09-23-2008, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikeyddddd

Gimme a minute. brb

Gotta go google ubiquitous.

Cyandin · 09-23-2008, 06:25 PM

i used dmoz a lot too, now that i think about it. shit, maybe i should pick it back up again.

zEn84 · 09-23-2008, 06:29 PM

goto.com... hotbot.com as well..

Grapesoda · 09-23-2008, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tony404

dogpile was my favorite

same here

Furious_Male · 09-23-2008, 08:21 PM

altavista.com and metacrawler.com were my favs. at the time.

Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE · 09-23-2008, 08:30 PM

yahoo.com

Spunky · 09-23-2008, 08:31 PM

AltaVista.,Excite,Yahoo

papill0n · 09-23-2008, 08:36 PM

alta fucking vista. I loved that baby.

Zorgman · 09-23-2008, 08:37 PM

Yahoo I think, it was sooooo long ago now.

pocketkangaroo · 09-23-2008, 08:38 PM

Web Crawler and then Yahoo!.

joefriday · 09-23-2008, 08:41 PM

Yahoo me thinks

GrouchyAdmin · 09-23-2008, 08:59 PM

1) Metacrawler
2) Webcrawler
3) Altavista
4) DMZ w/ Yahoo

BV · 09-23-2008, 09:07 PM

yahoo wasn't a search engine back then, neither was dmoz

eprater78 · 09-23-2008, 09:37 PM

I've used Yahoo from the very beginning and still do. I figure that it will find what I am looking for just as well as any other SE.

Bojangles · 09-23-2008, 10:25 PM

Yahoo + MSN

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