Anybody remember which searchengines made up the big 8?

I can remember Altavista, Lycos, Hotbot, AOL, MSN, but the rest escapes me, age I guess

Thanks

 

I used to love Hotbot personally.. Its a shame the search engine market (big boys) is like a desert compared to how it used to be in the good olde days!

 

I think webcrawler.com used to be up there. Not sure if it was top 8 though.

 

Excite was among the biggies of the past.

 

Yeah Excite I barely remember that.

I think it was metacrawler or something, but that was a meta-searchengine.

Man you guys must be as old as me (257+ Internet years)

 

lycos, hotbot, alltheweb, altavista, yahoo, aol, ask jeeves, excite, web crawler....

This where some popular SEs long time ago.

 

That's 9

Yahoo

Yeah BG (before Google)

 

Infoseek that's the one

Boy you must be REALLY old to

 

Here is what I remember from the first reading on "Search Engine Optimization For Dummies 1st Edition (Peter Kent / 2004)"

Dogpile / Lycos / AskJeeves / MSN / Teoma / Altavista / Netscape / MetaCrawler / Infoseek

 

No I believe that the original "Big 8" was (not in any order - around 1996):

Altavista, Lycos, Hotbot, AOL, MSN, Excite, Yahoo and Infoseek

Correct me if I'm wrong guys (research for an ebook)

 

I remember that Netscape was pretty big to, but the only two I don't really remember is MSN and AOL. But Internet Explorer is automatically installed on PC's and it's default is the MSN searchengine. And I'm 99.5% sure it was AOL as well, this was when they were still a paid subscription and kept sending out their floppy disks for a free trial even though you were already a subscriber for over a year. As I remember harddrives were 1.3 MB and your computer was obsolete by the time you got it out of the box. And Mark Joyner came out with that infamous "Searchengine Tactics" (which he gave away for free) that was really cutting edge info at the time, but these days would get you banned.

Thanks

 

Not sure this was ever part of the Big 8 but while we are taking a trip down memory lane I remember "Veronica" ...and yes I am surely the oldest of all.

 

Hah, but do you remember Archie, Jughead, Betty and Reggie? How's about Fred and Barney

 

AOL started it all

 

webcrawler was massive.

my personal favorite was dogpile.com

altavista and lycos was big.

I got into the internet game in 94/95 and there was just yahoo and perhaps lycos