AltaVista was excellent. On a different timeline we'd be searching on AltaVista running on Alpha chips.
AltaVista had so much noise that it was basically unusable... which exactly the issue Google solved and why it still exists and AV doesn't.
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AltaVista had so much noise that it was basically unusable... which exactly the issue Google solved and why it still exists and AV doesn't.