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Anybody remember which searchengines made up the big 8?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by bob25, May 11, 2010.

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

    Thanks
     
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  2. sinsearch

    sinsearch Peon

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    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!
     
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    I think webcrawler.com used to be up there. Not sure if it was top 8 though.
     
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    Excite was among the biggies of the past.
     
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  5. bob25

    bob25 Well-Known Member

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

    This where some popular SEs long time ago. :D
     
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  7. bob25

    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    That's 9 :)

    Yahoo :rolleyes:

    Yeah BG (before Google)
     
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    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    A couple of old search engines that I still remember :

    1. Hotbot
    2. Excite
    3. Web Crawler
    4. Netscape Search
    5. MetaCrawler
    6. Ask Jeeves
    7. Dogpile
    8. AltaVista
    9. Lycos
    10. AOL Search
    11. Infoseek
    12. All the Web

    - Dynashox -
     
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  9. bob25

    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    Infoseek that's the one :rolleyes:

    Boy you must be REALLY old to :D
     
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    #10
    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
     
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  11. bob25

    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    #11
    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)
     
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  12. dynashox

    dynashox Premium Member Staff

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    Isn't Netscape Search was big at that time when Netscape Navigator browser was still around?

    - Dynashox -
     
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  13. bob25

    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    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
     
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    1SEONewby Peon

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    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.
     
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    bob25 Well-Known Member

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    Hah, but do you remember Archie, Jughead, Betty and Reggie? How's about Fred and Barney ;)
     
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    AOL started it all
     
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    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
     
    ronmac, May 12, 2010 IP