Search Engines & Directories
Search engines and web directories that stopped indexing the web.
5 projects
DMOZ
The web, catalogued by hand
1998–2017
Search Engines & Directories
Technorati
The search engine that ranked the blogosphere, whose Authority score every blogger checked daily, quietly switched off in 2014 when the conversation moved to Twitter
2002–2014
Search Engines & Directories
AltaVista
Search, before Google
1995–2013
Search Engines & Directories
Aardvark
Ask a question over instant messenger and a friend of a friend who actually knew the answer wrote back within minutes, until Google bought it and put it on the spring-cleaning list
2009–2011
Search Engines & Directories
Infoseek
One of the first big web search engines, Netscape's default for a year, bought by Disney and buried inside Go.com
1995–2001
Search Engines & Directories