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Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.” (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Cool article. I remember the good and the bad. When it comes to search, it has gotten worse over time. I'd love to use some early 2000s Google again. It wasn't perfect, but the bones were there.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Ask jeeves was better at one point. It was an actual toss up which search engine was going to go well early 2000s.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yep, Jeeves was really popular for a while. I was an Alta Vista fan for a while too. It was one of my favorite early searches.

    What I really miss about early web searching is the cached pages where you could see all your highlighted search terms exactly where they appear on the page. Modern google dumps you at the front door to the corporate walled garden and you usually have to search again with some shitty embedded search tool. Old Google would link you to a .htm or .html page with the exact answer.

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