altavista was the biggest spider on web before google . it sold himself to yahoo now. i never use altavista i forget its name
I think altavista shall be ranked after google, yahoo and msn. It is still one of the biggest search engines, though can't line up the big three.
Not a big player for my website. Google is No. 1, then yahoo, MSN and then Ilse (a Dutch search-engine).
a few years ago Altavista was the only search engine i used. They were great but when Google popped up I never bothered using them again.
Wasn't Altavista the first with Video and Audio search? I remember searching for videos on Altavista back in 2001.
Since Google popularized i never intend to use Alta anymore. Google definitely be my first choice well if not Yahoo is still available while third will be MSN i know i'll never ran out of the results from those SE's So there's no chance for me to use ALta.
Altavista was the only thing I used back in 96-97 or so. I still use it for some Babelfish translations, but not for search.
Altavista was a great SE but it lacked a few things. I doubt it will ever gain the popularity it use to have.
Suprisingly I was reading somewhere a few days ago that teenagers (in the UK) use altavista!! I hear the same on a serachcast podcast!! Interetsing!
That's really interesting,where did you get that article from. I would like to read it . I think there are many people that still use Altavista.