Popular Search Engines Then and Now

Search Engines

As we approach 2010 all of us are reflecting back on either 2009, the past decade or even the past century.  All of us websites, blogs, fan forums, you name it are coming up lists upon lists that explore “the best of,”  “the worst of,” in a myriad of topics.

And how are most of us coming up with information on all these topics?  Yup, search.  That’s right, search engines.  But what about search engines themselves?   How have these little bad boys evolved in the past ten or fifteen years?

Here’s a look at some of the most popular search engines then and now.

Thanks to My Amazing Fact for these pictures

Hot Bot

1997

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Excite

1996

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Web Crawler

1996

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Ask Jeeves

1999

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Yahoo!

1996

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Google

1998

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Dogpile

1998

Search Engines

 2009

Search Engines

Alta Vista

1998

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Lycos

1996

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

MSN Search

1999

Search Engines

2009 – Bing

Search Engines

AOL Search

1999

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Infoseek

1997

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Netscape

1999

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

Meta Crawler

1996

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

All The Web

1999

Search Engines

2009

Search Engines

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