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It was the Google before there was Google, except they were just a search engine, not a huge company that wants to know everything about me. I am very old. 
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I used Dogpile, Ask Jeeves and Lycos, but I for the life of me cannot remember when I switched to using Google primarily. It must have been pretty organic tbh I remember Google when it was like "eh new search engine so what"
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Oct 24, 2021 21:58
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I used Dogpile, Ask Jeeves and Lycos, but I for the life of me cannot remember when I switched to using Google primarily. It must have been pretty organic tbh Most people started using Google because it's plain white page loaded faster on 56k dial-up than the bloated poo poo that was Yahoo and others.
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Oct 24, 2021 22:01
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that was the one with the labrador, right?
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Oct 24, 2021 22:15
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Vakal posted:Most people started using Google because it's plain white page loaded faster on 56k dial-up than the bloated poo poo that was Yahoo and others. This. But before it I did use altavista
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Oct 24, 2021 22:26
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AltaVista was my first search engine, and the only other one I seriously used before Google was Webcrawler, because I thought it was Metacrawler. Remember the days when you learned about webpages through half-heard insane rantings from Linux club meetings in the 1990s? No? True Yeah when Metacrawler came out it was like... Well, this must be the final form of search engine. What can be better than searching all the search engines?
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Oct 24, 2021 22:26
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Imma ask jeeves to suck my drat balls lol
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Oct 24, 2021 22:27
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Nooner posted:Imma ask jeeves to suck my drat balls lol Many a high school male did my friend nooner I think it usually came back with some snarky reply
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Oct 24, 2021 22:31
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:that was the one with the labrador, right? Lycos, go get it!
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Oct 24, 2021 22:31
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I was always fond of infoseek because it had a search within search results feature.
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Oct 24, 2021 22:35
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I remember a friend of mine using google in the late 90s/early 00's. I saw the mismatched colors and the stupid word and I thought to myself "What a piece of poo poo".
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Oct 24, 2021 22:40
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I completely forgot about Ask Jeeves
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Oct 24, 2021 22:49
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jeeves, where art thou?
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Oct 24, 2021 22:50
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hotbot 2 tha death
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Oct 24, 2021 22:52
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Remember how googles motto is do no evil but now they have a shitload of contracts with the department of defense, work on drone technology for the military, and help the NSA spy on everyone
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Oct 24, 2021 23:04
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Well What Now posted:It was the Google before there was Google, except they were just a search engine, not a huge company that wants to know everything about me. i used metacrawler i also used astalavista.box.sk 
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Oct 24, 2021 23:20
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Pookum posted:Remember how googles motto is do no evil but now they have a shitload of contracts with the department of defense, work on drone technology for the military, and help the NSA spy on everyone From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!
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Oct 24, 2021 23:23
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Pookum posted:Remember how googles motto is do no evil but now they have a shitload of contracts with the department of defense, work on drone technology for the military, and help the NSA spy on everyone They dropped that years ago
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Oct 24, 2021 23:44
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I miss Magellan.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:51
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Seriously though the main reason we're so politically fractured now and probably headed for a civil war is because of the tailored search result algorithms and their descendants creating feedback loops that then grew into atomically sealed social media echo chambers. Google for the first several years returned un-differentiated service so e.g. you could share a search query with someone completely demographically unrelated on the other side of the planet and they'd get the exact same search result (and ads). One day they flipped a switch and google started watching you back. All for your benefit, of course. To serve you results (and ads) relevant to your past queries and other internet activity that they at that point had only in a dim and vague sense started to track.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:08
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IIRC Alta Vista was the first to have a video search, before YouTube this was a god send.Vakal posted:Most people started using Google because it's plain white page loaded faster on 56k dial-up than the bloated poo poo that was Yahoo and others. Yahoo user spotted 
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Oct 25, 2021 00:08
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:hotbot 2 tha death This is the correct answer
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Oct 25, 2021 00:16
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:hotbot 2 tha death
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Oct 25, 2021 00:30
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Vakal posted:Most people started using Google because it's plain white page loaded faster on 56k dial-up than the bloated poo poo that was Yahoo and others. https://search.yahoo.com/ has been around forever
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Oct 25, 2021 00:35
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https://video.google.com
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Oct 25, 2021 00:41
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Bula Vinaka posted:i also used astalavista.box.sk holy poo poo yes
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Oct 25, 2021 01:39
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I used to binge (which wasn’t a word then) all kinds of bootlegged BBC documentaries using Google Video Google Video and Vimeo were great for this
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Oct 25, 2021 01:53
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I liked webcrawler It had a cute mascot
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Oct 25, 2021 02:10
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Altavista was great, way better than Lycos, Jeeves, and Yahoo at the time. I also remember they had a free dialup internet thing for a while that ran an ad banner on your computer, similar to netzero. I used that for a few months in high school because my parents were too cheap to pay for an internet plan. I wrote some primitive javascript that would load a sequence of web pages in another frame every few minutes so I could walk away and let long downloads run, since it would auto-disconnect you if it thought you weren't around to stare at the ads anymore. This is the walking uphill both ways in the snow story I can tell the younger generation.
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Oct 25, 2021 02:19
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coolsiteoftheday.com Every day something cool, something new.
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Oct 25, 2021 02:34
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I was more of an Infoseek kinda guy
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Oct 25, 2021 02:37
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altavista.digital.com It was the classy search engine. I think it was the fancy little background graphic with its name. And it had Babelfish. Excite and Lycos were OK. Hotbot was cool in that it let display 100 results at once, though the design scheme was butt ugly. Dogpile was great in that it let you search everything at once, with the caveat that you were going to get repeat results because it displayed all the search engines separately. I remember switching to Google not just because of its speed, but it was more comprehensive than the other search engines. Displaying 100 results at the time was also great because everyone else besides Hotbot did 10 or 20. Bronze Fonz posted:IIRC Alta Vista was the first to have a video search, before YouTube this was a god send. Videos on my internet? We had screencaps in binaries groups on newsgroups and liked it.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:52
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Save me altavista they've got cauliflower ears And still I haven't seen the sun or moon for twenty-seven years She wants to dance on burning bridges Making patterns in the snow Said I want to move to Mexico where everyone's a hero
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Oct 25, 2021 03:54
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remember astalavista
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Oct 25, 2021 05:14
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Lmao, this guy needs a search engine.  I use a complicated series of geocities webrings to reach the information I need while surfing the world wide web.
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Oct 25, 2021 06:29
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I use AOL Keyword: "Billy Blanks" to find the data I need on the information super highway.
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Oct 25, 2021 06:32
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Seth Pecksniff posted:I remember Google when it was like "eh new search engine so what" I remember some nerd rapestache teacher printed out a bunch of handouts about the advantages of google.
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Oct 25, 2021 06:49
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spouse posted:Lmao, this guy needs a search engine. how did webrings even work. If you missed a stop, did you have to continue around the horn and wait for it cycle past again? Was there shortcuts to different parts of the circuit like in IKEA showrooms?
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Oct 25, 2021 06:55
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Alta Vista also had music search and was good for finding people's hidden MP3 stashes in their old web 1.0 sites
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frumpykvetchbot posted:how did webrings even work. If you missed a stop, did you have to continue around the horn and wait for it cycle past again? Was there shortcuts to different parts of the circuit like in IKEA showrooms? There was usually a list of all the sites on a central page, managed by what I can only assume was usually a powertripping early internet user.
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