Which search engine did you use before Google/Bing?

skaif · 1 Jul 2015 at 22:57

Anyone remember ebaumsworld? That still around?

skaif · 1 Jul 2015 at 22:58

Just googled it, still very much alive n kicking! Used to get all my early comedy videos there!

MadMouse101 · 1 Jul 2015 at 23:06

flame696 said:
Yahoo and ask jeeves

+1

Kosmiche · 1 Jul 2015 at 23:07

Yahoo, Altervista, Ask Jeeves

Pawnless Endgame · 1 Jul 2015 at 23:43

skaif said:
Anyone remember ebaumsworld? That still around?

Yeah, knew that early on, as with break.com, Compfused, Newgrounds etc for comedy / pranks type stuff. We used those sites before Jewtube came along.

Kutter · 1 Jul 2015 at 23:48

used to have to find my porn in the woods or old sheds, kids have it so easy these days, they just google it.

Rimsy · 1 Jul 2015 at 23:59

Used a mixture back in the late '90s. remember my then boss coming into work one day in '99 going nuts about this new Google search thing he'd discovered saying it was so fast and amazing.... tried it when I got home and dont think I ever used another search engine since!!!

owned by google since 1999!!

Deleted member 77746 · 3 Jul 2015 at 19:24

Zefan said:
Lycos.

Lycos chat is still open but heavily moderated. Someone should make a new MSN chat that's heavily moderated.

/ASL

xb8browney · 3 Jul 2015 at 19:32

Askjeeves and Lycos

Hades · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:12

Altaviata and Yahoo and Netscape as my browser.

Em3bbs · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:24

Infoseek, altavista, yahoo, ask jeeves then Google.

spudbynight · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:36

Altavista in the main I think.

Lithium UK · 3 Jul 2015 at 20:38

AltaVista.

TommyV · 3 Jul 2015 at 21:24

http://www.televisiontunes.com/Yahoo_Yodel_-_Original.html

mattyfez · 3 Jul 2015 at 21:30

doofski said:
used to have to find my porn in the woods or old sheds, kids have it so easy these days, they just google it.

Indeed, back in the day, downloading a neekid pic would take 10 mins, and fill up a whole floppy disk. That was a revelation compared to finding grot mags hidden in hedges!

Lopéz · 3 Jul 2015 at 21:31

AltaVista for me.

Kol · 3 Jul 2015 at 22:32

Altavista for search, Astalavista for the good stuff.

bitslice · 3 Jul 2015 at 22:37

I think I predate everyone, so I used Gopher to find FTP files.

I will have almost certainly have used Veronica and Archie as part of that system, and technically they were the first search engines.

Kol said:
Altavista for search, Astalavista for the good stuff.

hah yeh

Regy53 · 3 Jul 2015 at 22:41

37.com

Shoei · 3 Jul 2015 at 22:42

bitslice said:
I think I predate everyone, so I used Gopher to find FTP files.

I will have almost certainly have used Veronica and Archie as part of that system, and technically they were the first search engines.

hah yeh

telneting into veronica and searching for stuff brings back memories. Along with gopher.
using kermit to download files too, Those were the days