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Many different search engines with many different results. Searching for stuff was not very intuitive.
The wild west atmosphere was rather cool being a teenager, I must say.
"Search engines" were often just human-curated indexes.
Well, search engines e.g. AltaVista or Lycos always used "spiders" to crawl the web and index pages. But web directories like the original Yahoo! or Dmoz focused on human-curated classifications.
Those Yahoo links were great. Old Yahoo was fucking awesome. Especially pool... I remember everyone played. Using icq. It was great.
The wild west days of using Infoseek for your above-board searches, and Sinfoseek for the below-board ones.
Nowadays, Google just gives you results. Relevance may vary.
DuckDuckGo can give you more accurate results, but feels thin.
And search engines like Bing and Google, try too hard on being swiss army knives that do everything. From calculating to weather to showing movies from local theaters. Anything they do to keep you glued to them.