Search engines we have known ... before Google crushed them

The Register ^ | 18 December 2012 | Brid-Aine Parnell

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[basil]

I use GoodSearch.com

When you first use it, they ask you to name a charity that you would like them to make a small donation to each time you use it.

The “charity” I named was Second Amendment Sister, Inc—(of course).

Over the years they have sent us checks that have added about $300 in SAS’s bank account.

I find them to be a very good search engine.

[babble-on]

Hotbot!

[Revolting cat!]

I remember when Infoseek was superceded by nymphoseek.com. Those were the days.

[Varmint Al]

Clusty

I have used Clusty and it still exists and is pretty good. Give it a try.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[GOP_Party_Animal]

AltaVista is the one that springs most readily to mind. It was created by researchers Paul Flaherty...

Paul Flaherty = FReeper HolgerDansk = my brother.

[basil]

BTW-FreeRepublic can certainly be listed as your charity.

If a number of freepers used GoodSearch.com, it might get to be very

helpful to FR.

I think the “charity” has to be a non-profit—and I think FR is qualified as that.

[freedomlover]

Dogpile.

Just for the name.

[ifinnegan]

WebCrawler was the best at the time.

AllTheWeb was also very good.

[Sherman Logan]

Is he a Poul Anderson fan?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

What was the one.....Gopher,Groundhog or Prairie dog or something like that?

[ShadowAce]

I’m sorry for your loss.

[PraiseTheLord]

I have been using *startpage* formerly called ixquick. It does not save anything about you, like the big ones do.

It does a real good search job, I have found, when comparing with what others get on the same search. For example, not a lot of other stuff that does not apply to what I asked for, and definitely what I did ask for.

[Digger]

I have been using *startpage* formerly called ixquick. It does not save anything about you, like the big ones do.

I've been using for quit some time but not familiar with that name of startpage. Mine is still IXQUICK.

[petro45acp]

Held on to Alta Vista until a few months ago. Saw a TED article about the “internet bubble” and made the switch to duckduckgo.com.

No auto complete
No cached personal info
No click back to links selected from results
Firefox version default bar that will try for HTTPS if available

Just say no to web 2.0

[Seizethecarp]

Thanks for posting this. I worked in financial planning at DEC during that time period and as just wondering the other day what happened to AltaVista.

DEC’s Alpha chip was the first to exploit 64-bit addressing which gave them a leg up until the technology was basically sold to Intel to be incorporated into their PC chips, IIRC.

[conserv8]

Web Ferrets?