What search engine did you use BEFORE Google?

I used ask.com, lycos and yahoo

 

webcrawler, Altavista, hotbot, alltheweb.

 

I do not exactly remember the date, but it was only Yahoo. Later on with the invent of Google, it proved to be the ultimate choice.

 

I used AV and yahoo before google. Still use Yahoo but not as frequent anymore.

 

The first search engine I used was google.
Though I have tried yahoo and MSN also later.
But Google all the way....

 

Yahoo and Ask, there on there way back now I think (I hear, MS is taking over yahoo + Reuters and Ask is generally on the way back).

I've got into the habit of using google, even though it gives poor results (For example pointing me to out of date sites and stuff i have to sign up to get what i want). I'm trying to use Winzy (So far i've got 2 iTunes and Amazon Vouchers and it API's with Ask).

 

hi dear,
I used before google.. yahoo and lycos
thanks/regards
Crown

 

before advent of Google i used to use Yahooo and Ask!

 

I used to search in yahoo shure and..sometimes lycos

 

i used altavista, webcrawler and hotbot

 

I used AJ.com back in 1998/1999 and after that started loving Google

 

Infoseek
Altavista
Hotbot

were my favourites in the early to mid 90s

but I also used Lycos and WebCrawler

in those days everyone used lots of search engines, and traffic was spread around many of them.

Then I switched to Google (Backrub) and AllTheWeb.

AllTheWeb was awesome - my favourite engine of all time.
But their marketing sucked, and not enough people used it.

Google got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. And I got lazy (like everyone else). I stopped looking at other engines and just Googled for a few years.

I still use Google a lot, but it's purely for SEO work. If I'm looking for something myself, or want to do some real research, I look elsewhere.

Hakia is my favourite search tool right now - the best thing thing since sliced bread.

 

I was using my magnifying glass searching for bugs before google came around. Then they came and sucked my young life into the computer

haha

 

It was used to be Yahoo and MSN, over 6-7 years ago.

 

I used to use yahoo. I came to know about google in 1999.

 

Yahoo wasn't a search engine, of course.

It's funny now, to think that back then, a lot of people used directories to find stuff.

 

AltaVista. I still actually prefer AltaVista's video search - Google Video should soon catch up, though.

 

yahoo.. i started everything with yahoo... from email, search engine, image, and messaging...

 

AltaVista was the search engine VERY long time ago