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Even Google sucked initially. -- nm

Posted by Reagen (aka Reagen) Jul 2 '09, 10:08

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Wayback Machine: Google in November 1998 -- (link) - Mr. Havens Jul 2, 10:18 1
- Awesome. The Google Logos page is particularly entertaining. -- nm - Mop Jul 2, 10:21
they won by making their search page clean... as much as anything else -- nm - Stewie Jul 2, 10:13 1
- the yahoo page was how I learned about Diana being in the car crash. - zork Jul 2, 10:16
I was an altavista loyalist until they started selling results. -- nm - loosilu Jul 2, 10:11 17
- back then: it was dogpile -- nm - 'lia Jul 2, 10:18 4
  - hey, can we girl talk? maybe we need kare. - loosilu Jul 2, 10:19 3
    - Strawberry Electric this weekend! How'd you guess? - 'lia Jul 2, 10:22 2
      - hee! I need to pick colors for this weekend. However my issue is eyebrows. can't find a good pencil color. - loosilu Jul 2, 10:23 1
        
        hmm, that's a tough one - 'lia Jul 2, 10:35
- I loved Altavista. It's fate is one of the great web tragedies (along with thespot.com and MSN's 1st generation shows) -- nm - Mop Jul 2, 10:17 1
  - they did it to themselves, imo. -- nm - loosilu Jul 2, 10:24
- I used to use them a lot too back in the late 90's.....Lycos was the other one. There used to be a really good Canadian too. -- nm - Walt_Disney Jul 2, 10:14 2
  - I used hotbot, but stewie is right: I switched to google because it was clean. I hate mess. (I have like three apps on my iphone. I run my life like a - campus wifi loves mandy lane Jul 2, 10:19 1
    - I switched because it gave me the most relevant results on top. -- nm - loosilu Jul 2, 10:21
- That was *you*?? Pleased to meet you. -- nm - altavista si Jul 2, 10:12 4
  - Altavista was the shit for a while -- nm - con_carne Jul 2, 10:24
  - Actually, altavista was the google of that age. Everyone I knew used it as a primary search engine. -- nm - not2fast Jul 2, 10:23 2
    - yes, it was the best before google. -- nm - loosilu Jul 2, 10:24
    - Absolutely. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 2, 10:24
- oh wow, I remember using them -- nm - zork Jul 2, 10:12 1
  - for scientific stuff, they were actually better than google, because that's a situation where the most popular is not always the best. -- nm - loosilu Jul 2, 10:15
I only switched to google because yahoo was using redirect links, now google sometimes does that too -- nm - zork Jul 2, 10:10

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