Who still uses Altavista ?

[Johnnytoxic]

I remember I used to use this religiously before google. I can now just about remember it's name. How is it still going. Was it not the top search engine at one point?

 

[meghatronic]

I used to use infoseek. At least I think it was called that.

Now that IS going back...

 

[scorza]

I used one called Webcrawler back in '94/5 - was terrible though, AltaVista was a Godsend back then.

Don't use it any more though of course - except for babelfish.

 

[v0n]

Or that odd one, with a black dog, what was it called again? Lickos? Lycras?

 

[rick827]

Or that odd one, with a black dog, what was it called again? Lickos? Lycras?

Lycos

I do remember swearing by altavista - but damn it was slow on 56k

 

[Sarduk]

AltaViszta simply syndicates Yahoo search results now

 

[v0n]

And dare I remind you of rarities like Infoseek and Hotbot? Talking about dot com fumes...

 

[meghatronic]

And dare I remind you of rarities like Infoseek and Hotbot? Talking about dot com fumes...

Cough post 2.. cough cough...

 

[paradigm]

I swore by altavista when it was http://altavista.digital.com/
But this is going back a looooong way. Before that I didn't really use "the internet" as we see it today, I used Compuserve WinCIM, or BBS's.

 

[uknowist]

I remember using Hotbot, and Excite, man they were bad

 

[POB]

Who remembers being snobbish about Google and telling people it was trashy, and would never catch on.

 

[Peño]

I think AltaVista was my primary search engine before Google. I still use it for Babelfish, but that's about it.

 

[GravyMonster]

I used to use infoseek. At least I think it was called that.

Now that IS going back...

Hehe same. That must have been aroun 97/98

 

[Acid_death69]

I only used altavista to get past blocked websites at school, lol thats going a fair few years

 

[Phil99]

Who remembers being snobbish about Google and telling people it was trashy, and would never catch on.

 

[rjk]

what about dogpile?
more like dog****
i used to use yahoo up until the google bug caught on

 

[paradigm]

This thread just reminded me of a slightly more risqué search engine that had a name similar to that of Altavista.

I was shocked to see that not only is it still up, but it still updated

EDIT: Lol, the guy below mentioned it!

 

[Wiggins]

I never used Altavista.

I did however use Astalavista.

 

[Ben M]

ask.com was where it was at.

 

[peterattheboro]

I never used Altavista.

I did however use Astalavista.

Astalavista was like walking in a minefield.

Virus heaven!