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July 31st, 2009

Dinosaur sightings: Search engines go old school

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 3:30 am

Categories: General, Google, Search, Yahoo

Tags: Search Engine, AltaVista Co., Yahoo! Inc., Search, Larry Dignan

Who remembers Yahoo when it graduated from Stanford’s servers? How about Google’s first outing? Remember AltaVista?

If not this photo gallery of 11 1990s search engines may be a bit of a treat. It’s a tour of old search engines.

A few of my favorites:

Yahoo in 1996:

Google’s early December 1998 days:

AltaVista in 1996.

Larry DignanLarry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.

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