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AltaVista Can't Keep Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the incredible-shrinking-net dept.

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.

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  1. Re:What use is Altavista nowadays? by brunes69 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google does have an advanced search, with phrase mayching and the "AND, OR" boolean matching that made altavista usefull. It just isn't as widely publicized as altavista's was.

    Try here for the advanced search, and here for how to use Google's pattern matching, its actually quite good (as is everything in Google).

  2. Re:If only google would... by TheTomcat · · Score: 5, Informative

    write.only.memory

    is the proper way to search for "write only memory" on google.