What is Digg?Sponsored by HowLifeWorks
New Food Sprinkle Convinces the Brain to Stop Over-Eating view!
howlifeworks.com - How sophisticated scents are helping people control their appetite and lose weight
125 Comments
- Sewermutt, on 09/13/2009, -4/+217So basically. Most of them turned into a Google clone. BTW anyone else find some of them like "excite" or "dogpile" sound like porn search enginges? Aww who am I kidding, they're all porn search engines.
- Maxpower57, on 09/13/2009, -0/+149dugg for being all on one page.
- Twinnie, on 09/13/2009, -1/+130Ten years and Excite still doesn't get it.
- falafelkiosken, on 09/13/2009, -0/+103try googling it
- mille716, on 09/13/2009, -0/+91I still remember in high school being handed a paper with different search engines to use for research. Now I'm a teacher and have never seen a kid use anything other than google.
Side note, my school blocks bing.com on all the computers. - modpancake, on 09/13/2009, -0/+86What's the deal with Yahoo showing "the future"? That's cheating.
- steevilweevil, on 09/13/2009, -0/+78wait you mean there are other search engines out there?
- kaykfrink, on 09/13/2009, -0/+68I was surprised by how many search engines of old still exist today.
- tubeguy, on 09/13/2009, -0/+57http://web.archive.org/web/20001010034747/http://t ...
Page I did in '99. What a trip. - Bulletbillx, on 09/13/2009, -0/+48I guess they heard how impressive bing is for searching for porn.
- pelfusion, on 09/13/2009, -1/+43Altavista's design back in the day is better than what it is now!
- danthemanhan, on 09/13/2009, -0/+41anyone else remember asking Jeeves if he was gay over and over again and finding it hilarious?
- pentium42006, on 09/13/2009, -1/+37Can the 2009 Netscape Search be classified as its own search engine when it says "Enhanced by Google"? -- http://images.sixrevisions.com/2009/09/25-31_netsc ...
- jaygeeze, on 09/13/2009, -1/+36Weird that they block Bing, any reason why? I know it's nice to hate on Microsoft, but Bing isn't so bad.
- jaygeeze, on 09/13/2009, -0/+32And "Hotbot".
- coachmcguirk, on 09/13/2009, -0/+28It was a typo.. They were trying to block bang.com
- michaelpinto, on 09/13/2009, -1/+28That's funny but I had forgotten how important one like HotBot and Dogpile were back in the way!
- necrozim, on 09/14/2009, -0/+26MY EYES!!!!!
- ScientistBlah, on 09/13/2009, -2/+26World of Warcraft?
- DulcetTone, on 09/13/2009, -1/+25I had to use google to discover most of these search engines.
- therodersabides, on 09/13/2009, -0/+23Dugg for the old pic of webcrawler. That site helped introduce me to the internet.
- TheWorm, on 09/13/2009, -0/+21My old high school had this page of school internet resources that the library paid subscriptions for and before we could do any research on the computers the librarians would spend 15 minutes teaching us how to use them (even by senior year when we had already been through the drill a hundred times) but after they were done everyone just went to google anyway. What a waste.
- splinter09, on 09/13/2009, -8/+27WoW! I thought that most of them were long gone!
- TheWorm, on 09/13/2009, -0/+19Tubeguy? Who are you, Ted Stevens?
- ddcool1124, on 09/13/2009, -3/+18Good old dial up days....
Actually no, the web sucked back - jrm125, on 09/13/2009, -2/+15It's interesting how the modern iterations are far less flashy and cluttered looking.
All Google clones I guess. - antdude, on 09/14/2009, -0/+10I used to use AltaVista a lot back then until Google came along. :)
- erikvonvicious, on 09/14/2009, -0/+10for me yahoo is in the same bunch with old MSN and AOL searches, useless, full of crap, super "busy" pages, and most of all, CRAP results.(that is ones that dont just copy googles top 10 returns)
its like they are search engines just to show you that you should be using Google, so I guess they serve at least one purpose. and I know I cant be the only one who thinks that anyone with an @aol, @msn @hotmail or @yahoo mail address instantly has no "internet street cred" - kjones555, on 09/14/2009, -1/+11I love how Google's changed the least.
Most improved search engine: MSN now known as Bing. - ChromaVita, on 09/14/2009, -0/+10"I prefer the term Jovial"
- tubeguy, on 09/14/2009, -0/+9Like that eh? Funny thing is I was very proud of it at the time.
- Mateo2, on 09/13/2009, -0/+9I remember having to submit your website to search engines, and then waiting a few days because they actually reviewed each submission.
Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo all made the mistake of becoming a "web portal" way before one was needed/wanted. Remember that we're talking about the days when 56k or lower was the norm. So waiting for some big web portal to load was reason enough to look for another search engine. Yahoo managed to survive because it was early to do the webmail thing and acquired a heep of users. Excite and Lycos had nothing to differentiate themselves once Google rolled out.
I think a lot of these companies still have a good enough brand name that they could be turned around if the right company acquired them. Just think if Altavista, the "smart search engine" before Google came around, reinvented their search algorithm and had a big campaign to get people to try it out... wouldn't you be much more curious than you were when Live or Cuil first came out? - Gravey9, on 09/13/2009, -1/+9Interesting how they all look like, or copied the Google layout.
Also...how are some of these sites still operating? - thisismydigg, on 09/14/2009, -0/+7so this is the famous tubeguy, how the mighty have fallen
- jggube, on 09/14/2009, -0/+6Just got done playing WoW.
- qazws, on 09/13/2009, -0/+6yahoo.com new thing is of bunch cluttering
- kevlar21, on 09/14/2009, -0/+6zee goggles! zey do nothing!
- geckron2, on 09/14/2009, -0/+6I miss when it was Ask Jeeves..
- CySailor, on 09/13/2009, -1/+6I kind of like Bing... and Wolfram alpha.
- xOrion73x, on 09/13/2009, -0/+5I still use Altavista... screw the new ones... too much advertising.
- jggube, on 09/14/2009, -0/+5Haha, nice GIF... scrolling/marquee text FTW!
http://web.archive.org/web/20000928211806/www.tube ... - notsofastener, on 09/13/2009, -0/+5Agreed. AltaVista may be old school, but it is still my most trusted search engine and my browser start page. If I can't find it with AV, then it just doesn't exist on the net. Why Google gained the worshipers it did is still beyond me. Google is great for the other services they offer, but their search holds nothing special for me. The search results are not better on Google and I tend to find more paid results on it when I do end up resorting to it. AltaVista, with its still usable advanced query language, quickly enables me to find what I want while cutting through the clutter and crap. You will have to pry my cold dead hands away from my AltaVista. Much love for the King of the Search Engines.
- EvilNecro, on 09/13/2009, -2/+7No northern light? (Ok, they are no longer public, but still....)
- dlllb, on 09/13/2009, -5/+10God I just got a 'stop script' error box when trying to visit that *****.. I mean site.
- tkr2099, on 09/14/2009, -1/+6No, dogpile was terrible. The only person I know that used it was the librarian in high school.
- heynow21, on 09/13/2009, -0/+4We all need to use Bing as a reward for their porn search innovations and to encourage further R&D into the field.
- TheWorm, on 09/13/2009, -0/+4I was surprised a lot of these still even exist.
- nyx210, on 09/14/2009, -0/+4Something tells me that bang.com is still accessible...
- vlmusicalsound, on 09/14/2009, -2/+6I see what you did there.
- protodon, on 09/14/2009, -0/+4I love the new search suggestions that google has now. I no longer have to sweat at what the autocomplete might bring up when I am using google, on my computer, with my family looking over my shoulder.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 127 discussions
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is 
