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		ArrayList on Feb 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Go... I miss HotBot. Anyone remember that?

UncleSlacky on Feb 15, 2019 [–]

That was probably the best single engine before Google. Around the same time, I also used the meta-search site dogpile.com - which still exists.

smileypete on Feb 15, 2019 | [–]

Surprised no-one has mentioned metacrawler so far:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler

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