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Images: Dinosaur sightings: Old search engines

by CNET News.com  |  July 30, 2009 6:25am PDT  |  Image 1 of 11

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Yahoo's space in the history of search is almost over. Wednesday, Microsoft and Yahoo announced a 10-year pact where Microsoft will power Yahoo search. It's time to look back to the 90s when Yahoo ruled.

Although Yahoo has always been a portal of sorts, one of its earliest successes was in the realm of search. It was an early king of search, overthrowing others such as AltaVista.

This screenshot comes from October 1996.

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