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What about Webcrawler and Alta Vista, Lycos and HotBot etc. Did you even use Webcrawler? I'm sure that everyone remembers at least Alta Vista.
[1]: http://web.archive.org/web/19970418094812/http://www.eule.de...
1998: "Showing results 1-10 of approximately 234,000 for google; Search took 0.06 seconds" 2013: "About 709,000,000 results (0.38 seconds) " My how we've grown!
Doesn't work on mobile. ....oh.
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That was standard trade craft back then. Everybody did it.
Why? What was the reasoning?
First, professional courtesy. Search was a very small world in 1998 (that is, in terms of people working in the field). There was an academic quality to the industry, with a lot of freshly minted college kids, teachers and universities involved.
Second, a stamp of confidence in their technology. That is: if we're not doing a good enough job, we deserve to lose, and here's our competition.
Third, money. Companies often paid to be listed at the bottom of search engines. In 1998 Google was still highly reliant on partners that used their search technology (they were battling eg Inktomi in this respect).
Give me an ajax-less google search over what we have now any day.
Seeing as how this is HN, I knew someone was going to write this...
Besides, it ruins much of my browser behavior, shortcuts for example don't work at all, such as backspace. A barebones page would have been a better fit in the target environment (the web).
looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/ http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stan...
Oh, man, dat java water effect: http://web.archive.org/web/19991010223952/http://www-db.stan...
For me, following the link here comes up as my default set-up for iGoogle, the home page skin that Google will deprecate in another month or so. I have used Google since the beginning. I was amused, when I updated my personal website at the beginning of this year, to discover that most of the pages on my site still had a paragraph specifically recommending Google, as if most people had never heard of it. That's how e…
https://www.google.com/ncr#q=google+in+1998&safe=off
The ncr part is "no client redirect", this should keep you on google.com instead of redirecting you to a localized version.