dub3 card · www.metacrawler.com
MetaCrawler (1997)
Another meta-search engine in the great search wars.
- Cost
- 6 RAM
- Power
- 10
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Search
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Ongoing: +1 Power to this card for each card you have in play, up to +4.
Ongoing is always on while the card is in play.
It costs 6 RAM to play and brings 10 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Search cards grow with the friends in their lane, and some draw you cards.
The site, in 1997
A meta-search engine that sent your query to several search engines at once and combined their answers.
Erik Selberg built it as a University of Washington graduate student, working with Oren Etzioni, and it opened to the public on 7 July 1995. Go2Net bought it in January 1997, and InfoSpace bought Go2Net in 2000.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1997 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1997, then plays a short scene. Want MetaCrawler in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
