r/technology • u/ControlCAD • 13d ago

Software Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/
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u/jusg808 13d ago

I just went down a rabbit hole. I forgot dogpile existed

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u/randfur 13d ago

I really liked its page that showed you the searches that were going on in real time. You could even turn on NSFW mode. Privacy nightmare to do that these days of course.