I then remembered that 12 years ago I was running a little site called Quik-Searches. It was essentially just a collection of search engine boxes copied from their "add us to your site" pages. I was particularly obsessed with getting a search box in there for every search engine that Yahoo was running at the time.
I shuttered the site a few years ago, after being hosted at various free hosting places like GeoCities, Tripod, and XOOM. It was also hosted at ISPs like CompuServe and CADVision, and then took up not more than a few megs at my current web home, BlackSun.
As I said on the farewell page: Hi, it's Jason. I wish to thank you for your support of Quik-Searches over the years. However, due to the increasing simplicity with being able to search the Internet, and due to the fact I haven't updated the site in ages, I've decided to shut it down.
I now feel that there isn't really any need for one place which has search forms for all the major engines on it any more. Firefox lets you add many different engines that you can use from right from the menu bar. It takes away a step: having to go to a site like this. This functionality, in various forms, is now the standard in many browsers so a dedicated site like Quik-Searches is redundant. It's just so 1996. Plus, some of the engines we used don't even exist anymore.
Sure makes you think about how far things have gotten since then, and it can be summed up like this:
