Hobot is still with us, though not as we used to know it. Previously a standalone search engine much like Google is now, its now main job is a front end for Ask Jeeves and MSN. In the grand scale of things, it is crap.Jamez wrote:And who remembers eGroups? It used to be really good before Yahoo took it over in circa 2000/2001.
Hotbot.com used to be search engine of choice and ICQ was a must-have!
Ahh, nostalgia.
eGroups was great, Yahoo bought it in 2000. The original author of eGroups held 5.7% stake in it (which was worth about $24m when Yahoo bought the company).
ICQ is now classed as Adware, but there was a time when it wasn't adware, but even then it was so big and so system heavy it was awkward to use. ICQ Spambots were all the rage as well. Apparently AOL bought the company in 1998.