how many of you use altavista???????

7 yearsago, i used to. But not now.

 

Thanks for getting me to try it.

The image search is excellent.

It also returns an appropriate country page based on your browser's language preference - so if you have set en-gb, you get a "United Kingdom" search option, even if you are not in the UK. MUCH cooler and more correct than geolocation (whatl Google and everyone else does). The problem is that most people do not have this set correctly - they should probably use geolocation as well (perhaps they do?) and combine the results with some simple rules.

 

Altavista, used it for a while back in the day then when they got bought by yahoo I figured I'd just use yahoo.
Now I use Yahoo and MSN and google and occassionaly alltheweb.

 

Funny thread . I almost forgot that it still exists...

 

Altavista? never ever used it! I only use google out of habit and yahoo always is too cluttered..i get a headache!

 

I only use Google and sometimes Yahoo.

 

Gos*, guys, I've forgotten its existence.

Thanks for jogging my memory

 

i used it a year back i guess.. its a good SE anyways..

 

I haven't used anything else than google for many years.

 

I use it as my last option.
no no.. wait... second last.

(last one being msn/live)

 

never used it..and dont inted to( google wont let me!)

 

I don't use altavista much, Normally i use search engines Google and serachbigdaddy

 

The only search engine I used a few years ago (back in 2000) was Altavista. Dont remember the last time I used it recently...Google has killed em all.

 

guys, just give AV a chance. Yeah, it can't compete with google, but still it provides really good search result.

Don't forget that in the beginning google was far behind AV and Yahoo. So, who knows, maybe one day AV will emerge on the surface.

 

I never used Alta Vista. Google, MSN and MSN is still the best. But why most of the user didnt used other search engine, is they didnt know about that or not familiar with it.

 

Google is my favorite. I don't even use Yahoo or MSN. Ofcourse I use them for checking the position of my site in them, but not for my personal use.

 

Well put it this way. My main keyword is ranked 1st in it and I havent had a single visitor from it.

 

im a google person for everything... email, videos (youtube), and pretty much everything... and yahoo once in a while as well but only reason i ever visit altavista is for the babel fish translator...

 

Well I tried it a couple of years ago for some searches. Nowdays I am using it only to see if my websites are indexed with them! However I am using the BabelFish translator almost every day.

 

It's been a very long time.