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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Appalbarry on Thursday April 09 2015, @11:53PM

    by Appalbarry (66) on Thursday April 09 2015, @11:53PM (#168556) Journal

    Remember that in its early days Yahoo actually reviewed submissions, and catalogued everything.

    Yes, that means that the links that you followed had been examined by real live people, not just collected by an all to easy to game algorithm.

    Of course, once AltaVista appeared Yahoo became the place where your dumber, slower, less cool relatives got their first e-mail address.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by khedoros on Friday April 10 2015, @09:43AM

    by khedoros (2921) on Friday April 10 2015, @09:43AM (#168682)
    I remember going to search engines and registering my Star Trek web page with them, manually and one at a time. Things were different...

    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday April 10 2015, @11:31AM

      by isostatic (365) on Friday April 10 2015, @11:31AM (#168701) Journal

      Traffic to my site increased a lot the day yahoo indexed it. Also when I moved from a demon.co.uk address to botf.com - a for con name in those days really pushed you up the rankings.

  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday April 10 2015, @11:29AM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday April 10 2015, @11:29AM (#168700) Journal

    It also spawned newhoo - a "cloud based social collaborative website" or some such bollocks, which was basically original yahoo without the paid staff, just vollenteers. I think that morphed into dmoz? But by then Goodge had won the internet.

    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday April 30 2015, @03:26AM

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 30 2015, @03:26AM (#176920) Homepage Journal

      dmoz.org is still around.

      I remember that when it was new I browsed around dmoz.org and eventually landed on a series of episodes of a story about a guy with an invisible girlfriend. I was never able to find that story again. I never found out how it ended.

      -- hendrik