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It's good to see they never sold out to some AI chatbot nonsense. Shame to see it go.
It was a garbage search engine, but a memorable one from the early web nonetheless.
Another relic from '95 is still managing to keep a web presence.
metacrawler.com
Owned by these folks; https://system1.com/what-we-do
That used to be my search page of choice.
It was the best option until the page-rank algo came out.
My go-to was 37.com. It was a sad day when it closed down, like a decade 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.
Dogpile.com was the best 😉
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.
I expect the trademark will be for sale soon.
PG Wodehouse would die again if he saw Jeeves become a digital effigy
Jeeves is public domain now.
It's not about making money from his creation. He did that already. He would hate seeing Jeeves become a hollow shell of acquiescence instead of the cunning intermediary he was.
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.
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.
Your obsession with me is quite silly. I recommend you just block me already, then you won't have to see my "trolling."
Would you like to engage with everything else I said, or was your sole contribution to say "haha AI soon"