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[-] randamumaki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago

It's good to see they never sold out to some AI chatbot nonsense. Shame to see it go.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It was a garbage search engine, but a memorable one from the early web nonetheless.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Another relic from '95 is still managing to keep a web presence.

metacrawler.com

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

That used to be my search page of choice.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was the best option until the page-rank algo came out.

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

Dogpile.com was the best 😉

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

I expect the trademark will be for sale soon.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

PG Wodehouse would die again if he saw Jeeves become a digital effigy

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago

And that’s when it becomes AI slop?

Not that Jeeves was a very good search engine to begin with. But it’s a good way to ruin nostalgia and disrespect the past.

[-] XLE@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

Facedeer's just trolling as usual.

The truth of the matter is: we're at the peak of AI innovation and subsidies, and if any company could demonstrate profitability by incorporating a modern LLM, this would have been it. And they didn't.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 weeks ago

Your obsession with me is quite silly. I recommend you just block me already, then you won't have to see my "trolling."

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