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  1. Guest

    I've always used yahoo.
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #41

  2. Guest

    I first started using Dogpile. I then moved on to Ask Jeeves. I now use Yahoo! I like the customizable My Yahoo page much better.
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #42

  3. Guest

    I first started using Dogpile. Used hotbot for quite some time, I then moved on to Ask Jeeves. I now use Yahoo! I like the customizable My Yahoo page much better.
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #43

  4. Johny47 Newcomer, in training Posts: 157

    That was so long ago, I think it was just internet explorer =/

    I really like Google.
    Johny47, Feb 5, 2011
    #44

  5. SeiveD Newcomer, in training Posts: 25

    I think I used Altavista the most. I had tried Excite, Lycos, Hotbot and Yahoo for brief periods of time.
    SeiveD, Feb 5, 2011
    #45

  6. mrtraver TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 204

    I very rarely use google. I used Yahoo for years, and then Bing. My IE9 default search provider is Bing.
    mrtraver, Feb 5, 2011
    #46
     

  7. MaXtor Newcomer, in training Posts: 90

    I used AltaVista before Google.
    MaXtor, Feb 5, 2011
    #47

  8. Guest

    combination of altavista and yahoo
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #48

  9. Guest

    "back in the day"....Gopher is what I used
    Then yahoo, altavista and a couple others.
    Now it's 50-50 between bing & google.
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #49

  10. Trillionsin TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 889   +10

    Umm.. what did I use? I dont know.. I think Google erased any memories of other searchers from my brain.
    Trillionsin, Feb 5, 2011
    #50

  11. Benny26 TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,515   +36

    I remember typing the word "fart" into Ask Jeeves at school once...That's the only memory i have before Google.
    Benny26, Feb 5, 2011
    #51

  12. posermobile89 Newcomer, in training Posts: 72

    There were search engines before Google? I don't know what I used. I remember visiting askjeeves, dogpile, metacrawler and other various ones but didn't use them extensively because I never really found what I wanted...until Google :)
    posermobile89, Feb 5, 2011
    #52

  13. gwailo247 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 2,105   +18

    Dogpile
    gwailo247, Feb 5, 2011
    #53

  14. fpsgamerJR62 Newcomer, in training Posts: 489

    I don't remember using another search engine aside from Google. In the middle to late 90's, when I needed to look something up, I remember using a Webster dictionary, some Readers Digest reference books and an old set of encyclopedias from my college days. Back then I was running the Netscape browser on a crappy dial-up connection and manual search was definitely faster.
    fpsgamerJR62, Feb 5, 2011
    #54

  15. Lou3 Newcomer, in training Posts: 65

    Altavista and Hotbot.
    Lou3, Feb 5, 2011
    #55

  16. 0192837465 TechSpot Member Posts: 17

    yahoo
    0192837465, Feb 5, 2011
    #56

  17. treetops TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 1,385   +12

    yahoooooooo
    late 90s yahoo commercials got me
    treetops, Feb 5, 2011
    #57

  18. hassaan Newcomer, in training Posts: 90

    Google for me
    hassaan, Feb 5, 2011
    #58

  19. Guest

    yahoo for me!
    Guest, Feb 5, 2011
    #59

  20. KG363 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 518

    Ask Jeeves
    KG363, Feb 5, 2011
    #60
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