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It was a garbage search engine, but a memorable one from the early web nonetheless.
Another relic from '95 is still managing to keep a web presence.
metacrawler.com
Owned by these folks; https://system1.com/what-we-do
That used to be my search page of choice.
It was the best option until the page-rank algo came out.
My go-to was 37.com. It was a sad day when it closed down, like a decade ago.
Yeah, I remember disliking it back in the day (Alta Vista gang!!!🅰️♈), but I wish they evolved and got better rather than shutting down and I am still sad to see it go.
Dogpile.com was the best 😉
Used to see about a few dozen, and now some of them like Yahoo and Excite survive mostly in Japan.
Have to note that Excite has a very interesting history, asides from its domain name bought by, of course, Ask.