I recall using Web Spider on Netscape Navigator circa 1997 or so. Then Yahoo! was the big deal for a few years before Google
Comment on If Askjeeves.com was invented today, chances are it would be a GPT Site.
Wogi@lemmy.world 6 months agoI never liked Ask Jeeves, there were several other searches available at the time, though admittedly I can’t remember any of them now, ask Jeeves seemed to be a worse version of one of the others.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
kambusha@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Asta la vista
craftyindividual@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Alta Vista? That was good search engine. Did I trample on the joke :/
kambusha@feddit.ch 6 months ago
I think there was actually a “darknet” version of altavista that was called Astalavista too. If you were sailing the high seas back then, or looking for the anarchists cookbook, for research purposes.
craftyindividual@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Oh wow.