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Originally Posted by BradM
I used to use altavista. I only started using Google because altavista went to shit and nothing else was relevant.
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Altavista turned to crap, definitely. It used to be up there in terms of usage until Google came along. For some time there, "SE"s like infoseek, lycos, etc were less concerned with delivering REAL search results as they were about building media portals, etc. Yahoo was slipping into this trap as well. The distraction and financial turmoil wrought by the Net bust of 2001 didn't help either. Regardless, it's good to see Google push the SE players' focus back on relevant and useful search results.