Which search engine did you use before Google/Bing?

anything I don't mind · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:13

i used yahoo. I refused to use youtube when it first started. I was all ill never use that, thought it was a new facebook or something. End up using it everyday.

Pawnless Endgame · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:21

Yeah I was late on the Youtube bandwagon as well, as I was still using Break.com, Compfused, Newgrounds etc for comedy clips. Finally jumped ship to Youtube in 2007, which has been around for a few years by that point. I can't remember when Google bought it out though.

jellybeard999 · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:32

yahoo and altavista mainly. I can remember using Mamma.com (http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2066974/metacrawlers-metasearch-engines) and Askjeeves when it became well known too, mainly for the novelty (I was about 11).

SonniLombardi · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:34

AltaVista

Vampyre · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:39

AltaVista and Dogpile were my sites of choice.

cheesyboy · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:41

Dogpile

Oh how I laughed at the future Mrs Cheesyboy, with her Google. What did she know about Search!

G-MAN2004 · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:41

It might have been Tiny Online or something like that (did they even have one?)

flame696 · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:42

Yahoo and ask jeeves

POB · 1 Jul 2015 at 20:59

Astalavista

Strife212 · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:00

tres · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:01

Altavista

I told everyone it was going to be the big thing.

And before hotmail, a usa.net email address

Rroff · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:05

Can't remember which I used first, then Ask Jeeves then Google.

Sandycheeks · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:06

Can't actually remember a time before Google really...
I was with freeserve though and probably used whatever they pumped.

bartledvd · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:08

Ask jeeves yahoo lycos and alta vista then found google rapidly stopped using others

stopper · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:10

Oh the days of just remembering web sites, after that it was hot bot and altavista.

Skidder · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:10

Altavista, bit of ask jeeves and yahoo

robgmun · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:11

Housey said:
Altavista on Netscape.

Same, but also went through phases using Excite and Lycos!

Lycos in particular being pretty good at one point

esoteric · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:11

Yahoo.

tamzzy · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:11

yahoo for me too =x

jsmoke · 1 Jul 2015 at 21:12

They all ring a bell, did Netscape have a SE, I remember the names but I don't remember using them. Think I used the internets for the first time in 1994, have no idea what SE was around then though, I remember Eudora mail, or Pegasus mail though.

Geocities and Lycos was where is was at back then though, pop-ups, spam and 4kb/s download speed. But 4.4kb/s if you used a software accelerator.