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Imagine using the Internet when there was no good search engine like Google. I couldn’t sleep tonight and woke up thinking about search engines and how one of [...]]]> I will probably be one of those fathers that tell my kids tall tales of when I was a youth and things were so hard and difficult.

Imagine using the Internet when there was no good search engine like Google. I couldn’t sleep tonight and woke up thinking about search engines and how one of my preferred ways to search the internet used to be using Inktomi. Search engine technology has came a long way since the mid 1990′s. I remember using Altavista, which until just now I hadn’t typed into a browser for many years. Thats all there used to be, it ran on a few servers inside Digitals network somewhere and index a somewhat large part of the internet, or what was believed to be a large part of the internet.

A bit later some guys at Berkeley decided to write Inktomi which was a distributed application, unlike Altavista. I remember using the 2 side by side and you could actually sit and wait quite some time for Altavista to return you a query while Inktomi would return a query much quicker. A few years later (probably late 1999) in an office at Avenue A Media a co-worker wanted to show me this new search engine, something called Google.

When I was a kid we used to have to wait for our search results.

I forgot all about WebCrawler

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I have been spending a lot of time lately building the technical infrastructure to make shows like this happen.

At 7PM on May 29th 2008, Disturbed will be performing live at DeepRockDrive in an interactive streaming concert.

Tickets are limited so get one while you can, Disturbed tickets