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• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on “Quake III news” or “Subaru Impreza owners club” or such like.

  SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything’s just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.

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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • folekaule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Metacrawler ftw

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That was back when you could engineer a search prompt to get relevant results… a pre-ai memory there

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wasnt there a pirate search engine that was a typo of that?

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  • AniZaeger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Astalavista.box.sk

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ah yes! i never used it, never ever. didn’t even know it existed!

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Excite was my go-to in the early Internet days…

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• tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since when could you search for videos on Alta Vista?

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGtlUMMkOU

  I make bangers, not anthems
  Leave that to The Artful Dodger
  The broad-shouldered fifty-one percent shareholder

  You won’t find us on Alta Vista

  Cult classic, not bestseller

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