The Search Engines About Twenty Years Ago

Courtesy of the Way Back Machine I have knocked up some screenshots of what some of the popular search engines from back in the day looked like around 20 years ago.

Back in the year 2000/2001 there was a little bit more choice then there is these days and it wasn’t just all about Google, Bing and Yahoo.

As you can see from these pics which are listed in alphabetical order the search engines have changed a lot since back then except for maybe Google which still looks pretty similar.

I hope these pictures make you feel all nostalgic and please let me know which was your favourite back then in the comments.

More info: seoco.co.uk

Altavista in 2001

AOL Search in 2000

Ask Jeeves in 2000

Dogpile in 2000

Excite in 2000

Google in 2000

Hotbot in 2000

Lycos in 2000

MSN Search in 2000

Yahoo in 2000

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