What was the first search engine you remember using? Ask Jeeves was mine

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

Either Ask Jeeves or Yahoo, I can't remember (it's an age thing, you know?) I have used Google but rarely for many years and do not have it as a default on any device. Startpage is good - no tracking, no ads and seems to work well.

Mamapolo2016 · F

The library.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Long before the web there was a program and protocol called gopher. It applied to documents. Before that there was Archie. Though gopher I used more.

In 95 I switched to Dejanews which Google bought out later. Dejanews supported Usenet is why. Not yahoo.

Yeah I'm a relic. I have posts on Google's Usenet archive when it was Dejanews.

BillyMack · 46-50, MNew

Yeah I’m pretty sure it was AskJeeves. But I also used Netscape so that may have had a search bar

LordShadowfire · 46-50, M

My favorite used to be Hotbot. It had special fields for exact phrase searches and fields where you can put in terms to exclude, and it would actually exclude the terms you didn't want. Google has never been able to do that, even when you use the plus and minus signs. And it hasn't improved any. They just got rid of their competition.