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Altavista Renewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the old-dogs-never-die dept.

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?

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  1. I hate to be a spelling troll... by i_need_no_nick · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...but 'thingie' is supposed to be spelled 'thingy'. Damn stupid slashdot readers don't even know proper spellnigs...

  2. Memories by evilviper · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Anyone remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine?

    Yup. It was back when Digial was the hands-down best computer manufacturer. Back when they made the fastest and most inexpensive processor (Alpha) that was going to overtake the Intel chip. DEC & Alpha had amazing potential too. I guess you can really blame Compaq for everything if you want to. Hey, maybe we'll get lucky and HP will do to Compaq what Compaq did to DEC... Just wishful thinking I suppose.
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  3. Goddamn SWOOSHES! by Kenshin · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    AltaVista's Marketing Committee:

    "Gee, we need a new logo so people know we've changed."

    "Hey, let's get rid of that nice mountain range, the works with the 'high view' meaning of our name, and give it SWOOSHES!"

    "Great! Every other company has swooshes in their logos, so they must work!"

    ARGH!!!

    Am I the ONLY person who's sick and tired of all these goddamn swoosh logos?

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