Biggest thing I noticed is that there aren't any ads.
Google in 1998
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Re: Google in 1998
#22This was not long after I gave up on webcrawler and altavista. I miss the picture of the spider or web, or whatever.
You know, despite it being around almost forever (I think they tried removing it once, right?), I've never really used "I'm feeling lucky". I just never feel that way when I'm using Google, I guess.
Re: Google in 1998
#23Give 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...
Re: Google in 1998
#24Give me an ajax-less google search over what we have now any day.
Re: Google in 1998
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en
Pretty cool! Now if I can figure out how to default to this...
http://www.google.com/preferences, second box down.
Re: Google in 1998
#27What about Webcrawler and Alta Vista, Lycos and HotBot etc. Did you even use Webcrawler? I'm sure that everyone remembers at least Alta Vista.
Re: Google in 1998
#28What about Webcrawler and Alta Vista, Lycos and HotBot etc. Did you even use Webcrawler? I'm sure that everyone remembers at least Alta Vista.
Webcrawler was my favorite back then.
Re: Google in 1998
#29Apart from the cheesy look of the logo, that actually looks much better, nicer and cleaner than the monstrosity they are serving today.
It gives the user a very good, immediate overview of the results without bad, distracting UI noise all over the place. Sometimes less is definitely more.
Not that it bothers me much though, I've long switch to duckduckgo. They are actually innovating at this search-engine game, much unlike Google.
Re: Google in 1998
#30They were so confident about their search results that they were giving links to their competitors' websites at the bottom of their page
That was standard trade craft back then. Everybody did it.