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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. Yes by hackwrench · · Score: 1, Redundant

    + and - just don't work the same way in Google.

  2. Hehe by ekrout · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Anyone remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine?

    Anyone remember when Slashdot had a search engine?

    (yes, I realize it's "kind of" working right now...well, at least the last time I checked it...)

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