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Oh man - until you said that I had entirely forgotten that there were once programs that did nothing but query the menagerie of search engines out there and show you a page of results so you could pray that one of them was what you wanted and open them all in your separate web browser of choice.

Not-so-good-old-days indeed.

I used Copernicus for that.

You likely mean Copernic, the big competitor to Google Desktop Search.

Oh wow, blast from the past. That thing still exists?

I always thought Hotbot was the best for geeks. I do miss AltaVista though.

It was hotbot or webcrawler for me. And, yes, Altavista will always be remembered, especially for babelfish.

Dogpile FTW.

They taught us about Dogpile in school.

Dogpile taught me one thing: every result I liked always came from Google.

Goodbye Dogpile.

"Here in the distant future I can just speak to my handheld supercomputer and it shows me exactly what I want."

You've got a Nexus One too? ;-)