Welcome • User Guide
ToS • Privacy • Canary
Donate • Bugs • License

©2026 Poal.co

1.4K

Hotwire Lycos AskJeeves Xoom Dogpile (a little later)

Hotwire Lycos AskJeeves Xoom Dogpile (a little later)

(post is archived)

[–] • 19 pts

Altavista

[–] • 1 pt

I used it damn near until DDG came out. I knew Google was going to be shit from the start. Any company self-righteous enough to make "do no evil" or whatever it was a slogan definitely intends to do evil.

[–] • 1 pt

I think that your memory must be bad. Altavista was the best until Google came along, but it was still bad. Google far, far, superior to anything that came before.

[–] • 8 pts

Webcrawler

[–] • 2 pts

this was the one i used the most.

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Webcrawler and well, fuck me, it still exists.

[–] • 4 pts

Remember HotBot? It was blocked by the overly aggressive netnanny filter the company I worked for in the 90s had. Apparently someone thought it was a sexual reference.

[–] • 2 pts

Our school filter did that to Hotmail under the same logic. While failing to block rotten.com or stileproject

[–] • 1 pt

Yep. We had some cities around us that had "Lick" in the name. That was always amusing. Because there's no use for the work lick other than that of a pornographic nature...

[–] • 3 pts

Metacrawler polled multiple popular search engines at the time, providing a compilation of the results it deemed best

[–] • 3 pts

It was all about the BBS’s. Secret directories, access levels, good stuff. Then your mom picks up the phone and you drop carrier on a file a few times and they cancel your access for crashing the server.

Good times.

[–] • 1 pt

Only 1 phone line?

[–] • 4 pts

What are you rich or somethin?

[–] • 0 pt

Yah mane

[–] • 1 pt

No, obviously didn't know the trick of grabbing the phone line at at house entry point and wiring the modem there, and powering the house off of the modems other side.

[–] • 1 pt

GamesUniverse had 8

AND if you paid em $5 a month you could eventually get web access too.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

For me it was Gopher, then Alta-Vista, then Yahoo, then Google, then DuckDuckGo, then back to Google when DuckDuckGo promised to censor the shit out of search results for political reasons.

[–] • 0 pt

then back to Google

Bing is less censored than Google, and the results are good.

[–] • 0 pt

i get zero relevant search results via bing in aus unless im searching for something american.

Load more (15 replies)