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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. Sheesh by EggplantMan · · Score: -1, Troll

    I never really understood why google beat out Altavista in the first place. I mean Altavista has a great search engine to begin with, plus added features like the fish, which is very useful. What the fuck does google have? Googlefights?? How much does any of that mean when Google's ranking system is corrupt, ie they allow people to pay for their ranking. Besides that, google now censors its content. Google is looking really weak at the moment.

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  2. ummm... by Bluesman · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone remember when Alta Vista was the best search engine?

    No? Yeah, well, my memory's not that good either.

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  3. You fucking racist. (nt) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Triumph by tauntalum · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a wonderful search engine!

    FOR ME TO POOP ON!

  5. Re:I remember when it was the best... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're a liar. Altavista was never as good as X in displaying those window thingies.