Search Engines

I admit I am a Google devotee when it comes to using search engines.  I very rarely will use any other enginge such as Yahoo.  An article on search engines I came across looks back to the 1990s to compare search engines then to search engines now.  Reading this article, I was reminded of sites such as Excite and Ask Jeeves that I have not used in many years.

The article speaks to the popularity of these other search engines in the 1990s when Google wasn't the most popular.  Several options were available to web surfers.  Most of the sites mentioned in the article are still available today though they have changes their web designs and search capabilities.  The article has screen shots of the sites comparing its look in the 1990s to its look today.

I know I will continue to use Google almost always, but it is interesting seeing the changes these search engines have taken over the past two decades. 

Sites mentioned in the article include:
HotBot
Excite
WebCrawler
Ask Jeeves
Yahoo
Google
Dogpile
AltaVista
Lycos
MSN Search
AOL Search
Infoseek
Netscape Search
MetaCrawler
All the Web