There’s nothing like screen shots of web sites from the 1990s to make me start reminiscing. This collection of grabs of search engine sites from the mid-90s through today will do just that. I was, honestly, slightly amazed that all of the major–and most of the minor–players from back in the pre-Google days still have a presence on the web, even if they’re really just a meta-search engine.
One that really hit me was AllTheWeb. This was the last really awesome search engine (that few people knew about) right before Google took over. (And before that, I was a big Hotbot fan. Infoseek and Lycos were crap.)
And, along the same lines, here’s an individual study project I did on search engines back in 1998.
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COD September 15, 2009, 8:30 pm
I was a Metacrawler fan back in the day.