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re: What was your go-to search engine before Google conquered the world?

Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:24 pm to
Posted by Flair Chops
to the west, my soul is bound
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:24 pm to
MSN
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:28 pm to
Sadly AOL.
Posted by Hammertime
Will trade dowsing rod for titties
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:48 pm to
IIRC, there was a site called 32 or 36 that compiled searches from all search engines. It got the most results, so I used that
Posted by mattz1122
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:50 pm to
Yahoo!

Before that HotBot
Posted by genro
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:51 pm to
No one's mentioned Excite? Crazy
Posted by GCTiger11
Ocean Springs, MS
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 4:54 pm to
Alta vista
This post was edited on 4/11/15 at 4:55 pm
Posted by MrSmith
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:14 pm to
Dogpile
Posted by foshizzle
Washington DC metro
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:21 pm to
babelfish and altavista
Posted by just1dawg
Virginia
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:25 pm to
I remember those days when searching for something on Lycos would bring up different results from AltaVista or whatever.

Apparently I'm the only one who liked Metacrawler.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:26 pm to
The dewey decimal system
Posted by HarryBalzack
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:26 pm to
Webcrawler.com
Posted by wasabaka
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:33 pm to
ixquick
Posted by The Boat
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:38 pm to
Jeeves was my boy until he retired to Hawaii and it became just Ask.com
Posted by LSUsmartass
Scompton
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:50 pm to
Lycos was the best
Posted by PurpleandGold Motown
Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:54 pm to
Webcrawler or Yahoo...


First search engine was Gopher though.

That was the shite.
Posted by Placebeaux
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:54 pm to
Yahoo

I like the new Bing a lot better than Google
Posted by Gugich22
Who Dat Nation
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 5:55 pm to
Ask Jeeves fa sho
Posted by Byron Bojangles III
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 6:06 pm to
Altavista
Posted by NewIberiaHaircut
Lafayette
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 6:09 pm to
Dogpile
Posted by Cooter Davenport
Austin, TX
Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 4/11/15 at 6:21 pm to
AltaVista

It was the most "accurate". Back in the day, search engines would return a lot of hits for sites that were nowhere near what you wanted. AltaVista was the most clutch for actually returning what you were looking for.
This post was edited on 4/11/15 at 6:21 pm
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