Comments on: Popular Search Engines in the 90′s: Then and Now

By: shauny

shauny — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:14:14 +0000

everyone should stop copying google and be themselves

By: ianlordwin

ianlordwin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:05:39 +0000

those were the days…. btw altavista, infoseeker were my pre-google search engines….. ;)

By: dustin

dustin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:06:33 +0000

Something is missing from the Go.com website pic. When I had the internet in the mid/late 90′s the goal search had a big orange or red button that you pushed with the letters goal written on it… Where is the image of that?

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:31:37 +0000

Altavista was my pre-Google search. I started using Google in 1999. For a while, I searched on both and compared. I still go to Altavista as a backup, but that is rare.

By: TZH

TZH — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:15:46 +0000

I used yahoo and altavista back before the age of google. funny how all those extra buttons and tabs never felt compelling enough for me to try. hahaha

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:15:00 +0000

Infoseek and Hotbot where the ones I used to start with, and Northern Light, that was an excellent one which tended to be overlooked. I used to use Yahoo a lot but I think they’ve gone downhill a bit.

By: Geld

Geld — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:03:29 +0000

Those pictures are awesome! Search engines have changed alot in 10 years, i bet everyonve is using Google nowadays? Its so cool, so full of information that I just didnt know. Please keep it up.

By: PrivateJoker

PrivateJoker — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:43:19 +0000

From 1994-1998 I used a variety of search engines. 1998 to present pretty much 100% Google. Yahoo sucked when it was launched and it sucks today.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:36:56 +0000

I worked at Infoseek 96-00. Our sales department sold our homepage to anyone willing to pay for it. After awhile it became unusable and people moved away to the SE i.e. Google that still understod why people came to the sites in the first place which is to search and find relevant information. Search was boring at Inforseek and all the money we earned went to create a portal that nobody liked especially after Disney bought us at the end and put Disney content all over the place.

By: Jolly Good

Jolly Good — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:34:16 +0000

Thanks for helping me to remember “AltaVista”, my preferred search tool in the late 1990s.