Popular Search Engines in the 90’s Then and Now

December 23rd, 2009 | Categories: Interesting Stuff

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


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