In the 1990s, search engines were vastly different and they’ve been evolving rapidly ever since. Here’s a quick humor filled reminder of where we used to be, and what the future may hold for search engines!
| Search Engine | Which was… | But now it’s… | Which is… | Which is a shame because… |
In the future it will… |
| MSN | Used sheerly out of convenience when every-one still used hotmail. | BING | Rumored to be replacing Google as the iPhone’s default search engine. | Steve Jobs has screwed Apple consumers enough this year already. | Not be iPad compatible. |
| Infoseek | The Nerdy choice of engines back in the 90′s. | GO.COM, which is apparently “Powered by Yahoo” | Completely Fucking Redundant. | It’s only around because for some fucking reason, Disney owns it. | Be offered in 3D. |
| Ask Jeeves | Before we realized searching in full sentences was useless. | ASK.COM | The exact same minus Jeeves. | No other search engine had a mascot, let alone an English butler. | Attempted to bring back Jeeves in a progressive manner as Javiero, a flam boyant hispanic butler. |
| Yahoo | Marketed with that great “Yahoooo” jingle. | A goddamn clusterfuck of a webpage. | Just like every other “one-stop” megafuck sites these days. | It looks like it was made in the 90s using their own geocities. | Take ten minutes to find the search bar, |
| HotBot | One of the original big search engines, despite having one of the ugliest logos of them all. | Just a choice to search using one of the other three search engines. | Mind-fuckingly useless. | Those three search engines are MSN, Yahoo, and goddman lycos. | Still have the same shittly logo. |
| Altavista | Pretty unmemorable. | Even more unmemorable. | Not very surprising. | It’s actually a decent search engine. | Have a resurgence when “retro-searching” comes into style. |
Via: MadAtoms
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