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One year away from being annoyed at the web to being blown away by yahoo.com. A friend searched for some game or something on yahoo and I was like what is the t

One year away from being annoyed at the web to being blown away by yahoo.com. A friend searched for some game or something on yahoo and I was like what is the trickery?

kmfrk 13y ago
I feel like such a hipster for having used AltaVista and Dogpile as search engines.
- gbog 13y ago
  And Astalavista.
  - Ecio78 13y ago
    yep, astalavista.box.sk, still remember the full domain by heart... :) Edit: OMG it's still alive..
    - jk4930 13y ago
      code.box.sk was my favorite resource on programming languages then. The whole *.box.sk was amazing.
    - robeasthope 13y ago
      My god, it even uses tables for the layout, takes you back uh?
      - hexasquid 13y ago
        Check out hacker news.
      - hexasquid 13y ago
        Check out hacker news.
    - Nux 13y ago
      Of course it's alive. Check the whois data for that IP, hosted by "ANTIK Telecom". :-)
- joe24pack 13y ago
  Hipster huh? Well what about Lycos, remember that search engine?
  - kmfrk 13y ago
    Oh yeah. Vividly.
  - adefa 13y ago
    HotBot was where it was at.
  - StavrosK 13y ago
    Remember the search aggregators, like Magellan (maybe Columbus? Something like that) that searched X different engines and aggregated the results in a desktop app for you to use? Then I found Google, and I never used anything else again.
    - eterm 13y ago
      That was Copernic. (After Copernicus) I remember using it and there was a list of perhaps 20 engines. I remember the first to return (like, would return in 1 second not 30 seconds for the rest) was google. Every single time, google was the first back. It wasn't always ranked the top result back then, but it was fast.
      - StavrosK 13y ago
        Yes! That's it. Yeah, Google came and blew everything else out of the water. I remember searching for an ocx file for something that wouldn't run, and everything kept returning some spam sites. I somehow stumbled upon Google, after some recommendation, and tried it, and the first result was a legitimate download of the actual file. It's not hard to see why everyone switched to it.
    - kmfrk 13y ago
      That's what Dogpile did - at one point - albeit as a regular browser search engine, which was its allure to me. I often got better results than on Google, which must have been around their formative stages.
- teh_klev 13y ago
  What is hipster about that? Your statement makes no sense. I'm 46 and started using the "internet" in 1992 - usenet, gopher, FTP et al. Then came the World Wide Web". Altavista was really all there was before google, why is that "hipster"? That's like saying you were a hipster for using horse and carriage before Henry Ford started mass producing cars. If anything being an early adopter of Google seems more "hipster" than using Altavista. Gawd, I musta been and early hipster, how much more "hipster" can you get than that.
  - makeset 13y ago
    Between Altavista and Google, alltheweb.com (FAST Search) also had their day. I was in charge of a major web portal around 2001, and we were contracting out site search queries to FAST. One day I got a call from a new company named Google. The guy said he could give me a better price than FAST. I asked what price. He said, "Any price."
    - melvinram 13y ago
      lol that's great. Wonderful to think that even Larry and Sergey had to hustle. Everyone has to put in their time.
    - hboon 13y ago
      Little nugget: the FAST Search guys sold alltheweb.com to yahoo.com and focused on enterprise search (i.e. they sell/license their software to companies) with customers such as newspaper companies, yellow pages companies and government agencies. They were then acquired by Microsoft a few years ago and rolled into their Sharepoint offerings.
    - pge 13y ago
      Dont forget northern light. It was a great search engine targeted at researchers and academics that grouped results in folders of topic areas. They made the unfortunate business decision to transition to a paid service right as google was becoming popular.
  - lmm 13y ago
    To have used Altavista or Dogpile one must have either been on the internet before it was cool, or made a deliberately retro choice of search engine. Either qualifies for hipsterdom.

One year away from being annoyed at the web to being blown away by yahoo.com. A friend searched for some game or something on yahoo and I was like what is the trickery?

kmfrk 13y ago

I feel like such a hipster for having used AltaVista and Dogpile as search engines.

gbog 13y ago
And Astalavista.
- Ecio78 13y ago
  yep, astalavista.box.sk, still remember the full domain by heart... :) Edit: OMG it's still alive..
  - jk4930 13y ago
    code.box.sk was my favorite resource on programming languages then. The whole *.box.sk was amazing.
  - robeasthope 13y ago
    My god, it even uses tables for the layout, takes you back uh?
    - hexasquid 13y ago
      Check out hacker news.
    - hexasquid 13y ago
      Check out hacker news.
  - Nux 13y ago
    Of course it's alive. Check the whois data for that IP, hosted by "ANTIK Telecom". :-)
joe24pack 13y ago
Hipster huh? Well what about Lycos, remember that search engine?
- kmfrk 13y ago
  Oh yeah. Vividly.
- adefa 13y ago
  HotBot was where it was at.
- StavrosK 13y ago
  Remember the search aggregators, like Magellan (maybe Columbus? Something like that) that searched X different engines and aggregated the results in a desktop app for you to use? Then I found Google, and I never used anything else again.
  - eterm 13y ago
    That was Copernic. (After Copernicus) I remember using it and there was a list of perhaps 20 engines. I remember the first to return (like, would return in 1 second not 30 seconds for the rest) was google. Every single time, google was the first back. It wasn't always ranked the top result back then, but it was fast.
    - StavrosK 13y ago
      Yes! That's it. Yeah, Google came and blew everything else out of the water. I remember searching for an ocx file for something that wouldn't run, and everything kept returning some spam sites. I somehow stumbled upon Google, after some recommendation, and tried it, and the first result was a legitimate download of the actual file. It's not hard to see why everyone switched to it.
  - kmfrk 13y ago
    That's what Dogpile did - at one point - albeit as a regular browser search engine, which was its allure to me. I often got better results than on Google, which must have been around their formative stages.
teh_klev 13y ago
What is hipster about that? Your statement makes no sense. I'm 46 and started using the "internet" in 1992 - usenet, gopher, FTP et al. Then came the World Wide Web". Altavista was really all there was before google, why is that "hipster"? That's like saying you were a hipster for using horse and carriage before Henry Ford started mass producing cars. If anything being an early adopter of Google seems more "hipster" than using Altavista. Gawd, I musta been and early hipster, how much more "hipster" can you get than that.
- makeset 13y ago
  Between Altavista and Google, alltheweb.com (FAST Search) also had their day. I was in charge of a major web portal around 2001, and we were contracting out site search queries to FAST. One day I got a call from a new company named Google. The guy said he could give me a better price than FAST. I asked what price. He said, "Any price."
  - melvinram 13y ago
    lol that's great. Wonderful to think that even Larry and Sergey had to hustle. Everyone has to put in their time.
  - hboon 13y ago
    Little nugget: the FAST Search guys sold alltheweb.com to yahoo.com and focused on enterprise search (i.e. they sell/license their software to companies) with customers such as newspaper companies, yellow pages companies and government agencies. They were then acquired by Microsoft a few years ago and rolled into their Sharepoint offerings.
  - pge 13y ago
    Dont forget northern light. It was a great search engine targeted at researchers and academics that grouped results in folders of topic areas. They made the unfortunate business decision to transition to a paid service right as google was becoming popular.
- lmm 13y ago
  To have used Altavista or Dogpile one must have either been on the internet before it was cool, or made a deliberately retro choice of search engine. Either qualifies for hipsterdom.