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AltaVista Can't Keep Up
jedrek writes "MSNBC is reporting that Altavista, the great search engine, isn't able to keep it's listings current. Altavista hasn't renewed it's index since July which, seeing how it's almost November, is a tad too long." AltaVista was my weapon of choice until Google came along and was so much better that most net users jumped ship.
Google's superiority can be asserted with a simple test. Search for "porn" on google and you get over 10,000,000 pages. The same search on altavista yields only just over 3,000,000 pages. No wonder everyone uses google.
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Altavista used to be my weapon of choice, too. But then I switched to Christopher Walken.
Now I always have someone to talk to when I need to get results.
I must admit, he does tend to make a bit of a song and dance about it, though.
Come on, don't you like it when Altavista gives you the following?
Extend Your Search:
Shop the web for anthrax
Find anthrax at eBay! Register now!
Search for anthrax in your local yellow pages
So climate's changing. So what? It has always changed. The big news would be if it wasn't changing. - Dr. Philip Stone
If only Google would put those cool pop-up ads on their site! That is the only reason I use AltaVista.
.....(Imagine if todays Mozilla would have been around when IE4 was new....)
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