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RC and Moon Pie
May 5, 2011

altavista.digital.com

It was the classy search engine. I think it was the fancy little background graphic with its name. And it had Babelfish. Excite and Lycos were OK. Hotbot was cool in that it let display 100 results at once, though the design scheme was butt ugly.

Dogpile was great in that it let you search everything at once, with the caveat that you were going to get repeat results because it displayed all the search engines separately.

I remember switching to Google not just because of its speed, but it was more comprehensive than the other search engines. Displaying 100 results at the time was also great because everyone else besides Hotbot did 10 or 20.

Bronze Fonz posted:

IIRC Alta Vista was the first to have a video search, before YouTube this was a god send.

Videos on my internet? We had screencaps in binaries groups on newsgroups and liked it.

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