Altavista Renewed

Waterlooppln77 writes "Altavista has recently changed their searchengine to allow more competition with Google.com. It offers a whole set of new features, like searching through PDF documents, and more importantly got rid of the commercial portal thingie." Anyone remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine?

Comments

Re:What I don't get is...

[Angry White Guy]

The English->french->german->english translation rocked! Always a laugh.

The article translated:
Waterlooppln77 document "Alta Vista changed recently search engines for it, around more competition with Google.com. to leave it offers a whole set of new devices like the research by pdf documents and débarasse substantially the thingie commercialcolumn-resounds." Everyone remember when Alta Vista was the best research engine?

But..

[LordHunter317]

Will I still get porn ads when I search for porn?

Altavista still sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

Search results for "free donkey pr0n":

AltaVista - 162
Google - about 500

'nuff said.

Re:AltaVista vs. Google: speed and relevance shoot

[nbvb]

Completely unrelated, but try a search on google for "stoner girl" and look at what the third result is ...

How did THAT get there????

Seriously, how did it get there?

--NBVB

Re:Google is becoming a ruthless monopoly

[Mike Schiraldi]

I know! The double-standards are mind-boggling! One day, Slashdot hive mind says it prefers emacs, and the next day, they prefer vi! It's amazing that you can hear different things from different people sometimes!