sooo altavista has been dead since the stoneage - GoFuckYourself.com

DraX · 01-20-2006, 02:53 PM

and still is

anyone care to say otherwise ?

Anyone using them for searching haha

guess not

BradM · 01-20-2006, 02:54 PM

They were the best in the 1999-2000 era. They went downhill fast.

Baker Rd · 01-20-2006, 02:56 PM

I use hotbot.com

polish_aristocrat · 01-20-2006, 02:56 PM

http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/

Searches done in December 2005
Count Search Term
94621 altavista.com

apparently some people stil do

DraX · 01-20-2006, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BradM

They were the best in the 1999-2000 era. They went downhill fast.

Yea scary, altavista was the first site i visited when discovering "internet" and now 8-9 years later that site belongs to the past

Rest in peace

thaifan99 · 01-20-2006, 03:28 PM

im still getting hits from them.................around 1% lol

WiredGuy · 01-21-2006, 01:48 PM

I still get sales from AV, nothing like Yahoo/Google, but a sale is a sale...
WG

BlackCrayon · 01-21-2006, 01:53 PM

hehe, hotbot, infoseek, webcrawler, dogpile, etc. there were so many search engines to pick from back in the day that delivered decent results. now there is like 2. tho with all the spam on them its hard to get what you are actually looking for without being assaulted with seo spam.

uno · 01-21-2006, 02:21 PM

The only think anyone ever uses there is babelfish.

DraX · 01-21-2006, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uno

The only think anyone ever uses there is babelfish.

yea babelfish works great, i use it frequently

SomeCreep · 01-21-2006, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

hehe, hotbot, infoseek, webcrawler, dogpile, etc. there were so many search engines to pick from back in the day that delivered decent results. now there is like 2. tho with all the spam on them its hard to get what you are actually looking for without being assaulted with seo spam.

All those other search engines died out because they decided it would be a wise strategy to use sponsored results for their 1st and 2nd pages of keywords searched. The search engines that did not get greedy and actually gave the surfer relevant non-sponsored results, flourished.

BlackCrayon · 01-21-2006, 02:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SomeCreep

All those other search engines died out because they decided it would be a wise strategy to use sponsored results for their 1st and 2nd pages of keywords searched. The search engines that did not get greedy and actually gave the surfer relevant non-sponsored results, flourished.

wow, i didn't know that. good to know that didn't catch on. it would be the complete end of relevent searching.

adultchica · 01-21-2006, 02:38 PM

On rare occasion, I use altavista

Validus · 01-21-2006, 02:43 PM

Yea, infoseek, hotbot, and altavista ist what I used... but then switched to Yahoo... been there since. I love Yahoo...

Wiggles · 01-21-2006, 02:59 PM

they were great in their prime, but man did they fall fast.

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