Magellan, WebCrawler, Open Text. If you ever had any of those bookmarked, it was probably in the mid nineties, when they were among the cream of the web search crop. SearchEngineWatch is running a fun
Where Are They Now? article on the search engines of yore (and now). It includes the dearly departed like Magellan, Open Text, and Infoseek, the new-again, including WebCrawler, Excite, and HotBot, and the ones that never really changed, like AltaVista. For those who have been online awhile, as well as the history buffs, it's an interesting trip down memory lane.
Update: So it's an old article, but it's still interesting. Enjoy.
Tags: altavista, excite, hotbot, infoseek, magellan, opentext, retro, search, searchengines, webcrawler
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Subscribe to commentsCoryJul 5th 2006 6:11PM
Let me tell you what, that article is three years old. It's not that they're running it, but rather they ran it. So, you know, it's a bit outdated. Google's still a new search engine? OMG STOP THE PRESSES.