Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Popular Search Engines in the 90’s Then and Now

In the heydays of the internet – when Google wasn’t the only search engine people used to seek information on the web – web surfers (I bet you haven’t heard that term in a while) had several options for finding what they needed on the net.

This article harks back to the days of AltaVista, HotBot, and when Ask was still Ask Jeeves. You’ll see how the web designs of ubiquitous search engines of the past have evolved through time. Put your nostalgia hats on as we travel back to the ancient times of the internet!


HotBot

1997


1999

2009



Excite
1996

1998

2009



WebCrawler
1996

1998

2009



Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com)
1999

2009



Yahoo!
1996


2009

The future


Google
1998

2009


Dogpile
1998

2009

AltaVista
1998


2009



Lycos
1996



1998

2009




MSN Search (now Bing)
1999



2009



AOL Search
1999





2009


Infoseek (now Go.com)
1997




2009



Netscape Search
1999

2009


MetaCrawler
1996



1998



2009

All the Web
1999




2009