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Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by wenbin on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:10AM (#21646138)
Just curious - when did you start using Google regularly?

For me, it was after the year 2000, two years after Google was incorporated.

Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by tiborsaas on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:02AM (#21646911)
That's a good question. I remember using Yahoo and AltaVista a lot in high school. In college I'm 100% sure I used Google all the time which dates back around 2002/3. Switched to Gmail in 2005.
Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by zmix on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:58AM (#21646341)
It must have been before that. I was on AmigaOS, during the 90's, and there was a (commercial) web browser named "Voyager", which came with Google as homepage/search pre-installed.
Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by jnwatson on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @06:53AM (#21647120)
I started using it in ‘99 or so. I distinctly remember using it over WAP in 2000 with my first cell phone.

Having Google access via mobile in 2000 was living in the future. Folks would treat me like an oracle.

Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by mikepurvis on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @08:55AM (#21647820)
Around 2000. Initially via the Dogpile meta search engine, but after a while it became apparent that all the best results were coming in via Google anyway, so went right to the source.
Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by cosmodisk on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:30AM (#21647296)
I was quite young at the time with very limited access to the internet.Google was the first search engine I used and it was just starting.A couple of months later I 'discovered' Yahoo.Went on their site and I was like wtf..I think I visited Yahoo less than 10 times since then..
Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by omarchowdhury on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:58AM (#21649575)
In 1999. My mom told me about it!
Re:Excite CEO: Why Excite didn't buy Google (2014) [audio] by dec0dedab0de on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @08:31AM (#21647637)
Whenever the Yahoo homepage became a mess. Somewhere from 99-01