GregS wrote:

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It took a while before people started using Google. I started telling people about
the search engine in 1999 saying it was the best when Hotbot was #1
and I liked Infoseek for searching companies.

I liked northernlights.com when altavista declined in usefulness; then northernlights
took there engine private (pay) about the time that google gained in popularity.

Michael