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The Past, Present and Future of SEARCH

The Internet is the single most comprehensive collection of information in the history of mankind.

But when you have virtually every piece of information ever compiled in one place, how the heck do you find anything?

That challenge is what folks have been working with since before the Internet became a public utility.

Do you remember some of the old search engines you used to use? Do you use anything other than Google today? Are you even aware of all of the alternative search engines available.

Listen in as we take a stroll down the Internet Search memory lane and look forward to the next generation of Search!

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Original Air Date: Aug 2, 2008

This Week's Links

• Search Engine History - 1945 to Present
• The once dominate Excite.com, now just a relic
• DMOZ - the open directory project
• Submit a search to multiple search engines with WebCrawler
• Another "meta search" site: Dogpile.com
• The king of search in the mid 1990's - AltaVista
• Ask Jeeves allows for private searching with AskEraser
• AllTheWeb claims to be faster search
• Keep up with the Search Engine Industry
• The latest challenger to Google by former employees - Cuil.com
• Early reviews of Cuil not so Cool!