Old memories

[Demon Cleaner]

Does anyone remember?? Just stumbled over this, and I thought F**K, you almost forgot your favorite search engine.

Take me to 1995

[AlexJ]

Yep, I remember Altavista - used to be my homepage before Google became big. I still actually use the translation service on Altavista (babelfish.altavista.com) but haven't used it for search for years.

[J T]

Yep, I remember that. Think I used it a few times, along with excite, and Ask Jeeves, HotBot and yahoo.

Once a workmate pointed me towards google I barely used another engine.

[Puni/Void]

I also tended to use Altavista long ago, but also something called Webcrawler or Webspider or something like that. Have been using Google now for years, never thinking about changing search engine. After all, people are talking about Googling as in searching for information on the net.

[Submeg]

Oh yea, back in the day. Lol, how funny, I havent thought of them since just then. Been using google for a looooong time.

[Harrison]

I also still use the Babelfish translator to convert sites into English when needed, but haven't used the search engine for some time. Google has definitely taken over.

Back in the mid 90's I used to use Altavista and Yahoo! as my main two search engines all the time. They then merged so searching from either returned the same results. I think I then just used Altavista mainly until Google appeared in the late 90's.

How many still use Yahoo for searching?

[Demon Cleaner]

I use Google all the time, never use Yahoo. I find everything I need with Google, so why use multiple search engines.

[Stephen Coates]

I also tended to use Altavista long ago, but also something called Webcrawler or Webspider or something like that. Have been using Google now for years, never thinking about changing search engine. After all, people are talking about Googling as in searching for information on the net.

I hate the term Googling. It's annoying when someone tells me to Google for something.

I have used AltaVista before. Not for a long time though.

I always used to use various search engines, rather than just one.

Anyone here still use Ask Jeeves? I completely forgot about that until the other day when a teaching assistant at school went to ask.com to find a resource for me.

[J T]

I use Google all the time, never use Yahoo. I find everything I need with Google, so why use multiple search engines.

Damn straight, me too. Unless of course it's a specialised search engine/database like pubmed for journals, papers and other guff - but that's work stuff so doesn't really count.

Anyone here still use Ask Jeeves? I completely forgot about that until the other day when a teaching assistant at school went to ask.com to find a resource for me.

Not for a long time. We used to enjoy asking it questions like "why do you suck so much?" and "can I bang your mum?"

Kids, eh?

Tch

[AlexJ]

Where's Jeeves?