Lyn*laughs and laughs and laughs*
Frieke@frogglin history is fun 🤓
And sometimes heartbreakingly sad
I love you, I am proud of you!
Jon Clausen@frogglin "don't be evil" ...yeah ...right
Mark Koek@frogglin I was such a fan when it first appeared in the late 90s. Practically learned Linux by finding howto’s for everything using Google. Yahoo and Altavista just could not compete (and were indeed full of all the crap listed). Now it has basically turned into its former competitors.
Dagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥
LR
cybard 
Kara Goldfinch@frogglin I miss those days.
Francesco P Lovergine 
@frogglin Once upon a time, there was a simple and effective search engine for websites...
Janneke
Ray McCarthy@raymaccarthy @frogglin Ah, the glorious Digital Equipment Corp. search engine. It worked, but never evolved enough. If Digital had a different policy regarding such a side product, the history would be different.
The Orange Theme
Chris Cooke@frogglin @FreakyFwoof Me too. In 2000, the librarian at my grad school suggested that I start using this fantastic simple webpage for searching the Internet. Boy Howdy! I miss those days too and I'm often reverting to ChatGPT for searching.
teacher_rick 🇪🇺@CreativeChris Give
@ecosia a try.
Not that it’s perfect - but I think it’s a better option.
And I remember calling someone I knew to tell him I had an investment tip (he was into that): it was brand new but promising. And I had a strong feeling it would get BIG.
He made a lot of money. A lot.
This was the first of two massive tips.
He said he would reward me.
Never did.
Linda Rose Smit@CreativeChris @frogglin @FreakyFwoof chatgtp as an alternative to google?? From the fire into the frying pan….
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Disisdeguey🔻PalestineAction🇵🇸@frogglin Oh the good times.
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@frogglin Google was a friend...back then. Now, tis a poisonous metastatic cancer.
Angela Scholder@frogglin Das war einmal!
Manuel Tejera@frogglin The only thing left from that era is the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
JayJay 🦄🦆 #Terraner@frogglin the pitty is, that the best search engine at least when you use an account and cookies for getting good results is still google. I did kot search far but I didn‘t find another search engine supporting my needs with good hits the way google does. And with Ublock and skipping the first paid results google is still working for me. If someone has a better alternative then hit me❣️ ecosia did not work, duckduck neither. Googling for SAP, bicycle stuff, repairs, shopping, etc..
mirabilos
√-ʇoɾəuɐnɾ (Etaoin Shrdlu)@frogglin Company mottos often shrink over time. There was a time when "Don't be too egregiously on-the-nose with your evil-ness." was under consideration in Mountain View.
Alexander Knochel@frogglin I'm old enough to remember ^^
Bradalot “
”1st century BCE (Before the Common Enshittification)
Axel GutmannRE: https://theblower.au/@frogglin/116270900318436072
@frogglin I'm old enough to remember how I advised my community college classes to replace Altavista with this new clean, lean and efficient search engine ...
Reid 
Chery (Great Australian Pods)@frogglin I remember...
Lee from Philly 🇺🇦@frogglin Yes, remember “Don’t be evil”? So much for that…
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Caio C. G. Oliveira@frogglin once upon a time...
Leela Torres@frogglin
They also hat a Google search box for internal businesses networks. It was so helpful.
... and then the service was terminated.
They also hat a Google search box for internal businesses networks. It was so helpful.
... and then the service was terminated.
Erik Ableson@frogglin @futurebird Ah yes, back in the day... (checks grey hair and sighs, yeah I'm getting old)
Will 
Annette C. Boehm@frogglin I miss that old internet.
Dubi is here 
@frogglin the front page is still relatively clean. The insidious part is they moved all thd ads and distractions to the results page, and then hid them.
Midtown Masochist 🐻 (RB-050) 🐷@frogglin ah, that takes me back to the good auld days of the interwebs!
Grant Gould@frogglin I love the term "portal litter". Early 2000s enterprise web aesthetic was 100% portal litter.
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