Life Before Google

Arx

Aug 15 2006, 08:59 PM

Google has been the leading search engine for many years now, it makes me wonder how one out of what seems like a million different search engines could stand out so much to the point where very few of us would consider using something else. What I am curious about, is what search engines did people use before the invasion of Google? I remember using a site called Metacrawler and that it wasn't the most effective thing ever for what I was looking for, but it worked nonetheless. I remember using yahoo too but again, it wasn't that refined back then either. Post what search engines you used before Google if such a time in your life existed

This will be interesting...

brainless

Aug 15 2006, 09:25 PM

I remember the Metacrawler, too ... but except for some specialized search services, I ended up using Google, just like many, many other people :/

I remember that there's some kind of project trying to rebuild the Google indexing/search engine but without any censorship, back when I had a first look at it, it was in early beta stage and I was busy with graduating from school and now I can't find it anymore

Plenoptic

Aug 16 2006, 12:54 AM

I used MSN the most before Google. I remember using GoMamma a few times but I didn't use Ask Jeeves that much. I think the only reason why I began to use Google was the fact that it was easy to remember and there wasn't any ads or whatever to get in my way of searching. I used Yahoo sometimes when MSN failed and I figured MetaCrawler was too long to type so I didn't use that much.

grimreaper

Aug 16 2006, 02:03 AM

life would be so bad with out google if google was not around what would we use stupid ask or stupid yahoo search. if i was bill gates i would buy out all the other search engine and make google the #1 search engine on the planet

Dragonfly

Aug 16 2006, 03:52 AM

I couldn't recall life before Google. The reason may be I was not probably using internet. And search was not that important initially since webpages were also few. I remember browsing to websites like fedora mail, usa.net mail, yahoo, and few more websites. And many of them don't care so much about search at that time. By the time search became popular Google was right there to answer.

lemonwonder

Aug 16 2006, 06:38 AM

Well, according to my research, google opened several days after the internet was laucnched, u can try trace any websites, but they wont go back to far, and according to what i traced, google was about... 1 month and a half after the web opened

roundball

Aug 16 2006, 08:08 AM

before google i was using dogpile. at the time it was considered the premier search engine around. i havent been on there since moses played nfl though. long time.

did use yahoo at one point and still do now and then.

dontmaimyourself

Aug 16 2006, 04:02 PM

Well I didn't really use the internet that much before Google made it big, so I really didn't use anything but Google, well I used Yahoo for a while but that was powered by Google, so I suppose that really counts as Google. I know my sister used to use Lycos, but I think that might have just been the cute dog. Now I wouldn't even consider another search engine, I'd just use a better criteria if Google failed me or I'd give up before I used another.

TypoMage

Aug 16 2006, 06:10 PM

Want to know why yahoo did not work out? First of all there site is full of junk. It takes way to long for it to load. And also google is so plain. And no extra junk. That is one reason why they are the best!

Dooga

Aug 18 2006, 12:34 PM

When Google didn't exist, I was still in grade one, and we were using Windows 95 with a 15 inch monitor, and the internet was slower than our old internet connection, which said a lot. At that time, we used "kid versions" of yahoo, which is "yahooligans" and other sites like "ask jeeves for kids" etc. They were the worst sites ever. Yahooligans didn't render any results that were useful, and Ask Jeeves never answered my questions, they just lead to useless kid sites like crayola.com... And when Google arrived when I was in second grade, we weren't allowed to use Google, since it was "dangerous"...

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armondtimesbelize

Aug 7 2008, 12:23 AM

Before Google, i either used MSN, Yahoo, Yahooligans, Ask Jeeves and a few other i can't remember. When i use to use Ask Jeeves they never answered my questions and always led me to kiddy websites. I once typed: 'how to make a for dummies book for dummies' and it came up with: 'how to make cake.' Yahooligans and Yahoo aren't really pictured as a search engine because they have too many things on their home page. Google is plain simple and you get right to the search, which is the important part. MSN was ok, but they had a lot of sponsored links/site and i think they are using "live search" or something, need to check. But i use Google before any other search engine, sometimes i don't get what i am looking for but i is still better than alot of other search engines out there.

MiniK

Oct 21 2007, 03:47 PM

There was a time before Google..? ^.^ Google's been here since forever.

zamaliphe

Oct 21 2007, 04:28 AM

will when you get to the top

you are start your way down

because goggle is the best search engine people will

bay every thing thy have to but their sit on the top of it

and when you find allot of spammer on your result

you then have to look for other search engine

one might not at the top

but can find what you need

OneMinute

Oct 21 2007, 03:28 AM

Here is my two-cents as well as my voice is particularly extracted from two books that are totally focused on Google.

Well, Google was created out of pure intention to build a better search where search quality is at it's highest and results will be more relevant than any other search engines. However, Larry and Page didn't want to put advertisements on the search result pages, instead they want them to be organic listings rather than paid. So, they stuck to licensing their technology to companies like AOL and Yahoo. After a while, a John Batelle told them that they cannot last out long in this way so someone gave them the idea of seperate the page into two margins where one is for paid listings and another for organic results.

They did succeed, and along with the dot com bubble boom, their stock rose damn high and that's how their market share as 51% came to come about. By the way, this happened because, i think, i don't want to take out my book (wasting strength) they conserved that money.

Saint_Michael

Oct 20 2007, 01:14 AM

Yeah back in my noob days I used mainly yahoo, and msn and few lesser known search engines like dog pile, ask jeeves. However, whats really disturbing is how a search engine like google who entered the stock market is worth $600 a share, thats unheard of especially for companies like microsoft and Apple who been doing this for over 30 years now. Well yeah google is doing other programming things and of course trying ot take over the the internet advertisement arena. It should be interesting what google will be like 10 years from now when they celebrate their 20th anniversary, if they last that long.

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