People still use Alta Vista?

BabelFish is a killer i have to agree!

 

yeah babelfish is good
It's been ages since I've used altavista though

 

I have a houseful of teenagers here... what do I need with babbling fish?

 

Altavista was one of the most expensive domain trades (if I'm right it was the second after business.com) and was the best SE years ago, but now it sucks..
BTW, try to search google for "search" guess which site is first.. LOL

 

They get their results from yahoo now don't they... seeing as their front page doesn't offer much more than search they probably aren't doing much competing.

Oh, and I haven't used their Babelfish in years, I usually go to google for translations now.

...Ah, now I see at the bottom they are owned by Overture.

 

Altavista, I remeber it was the best Search engine few years ago.
I dont use it anymore but i get good 10 visitors to my site every month.

err does anyone remember Archie-The search engine?
horrible days, werent they?

 

Archie and Veronica... yes

 

Forgetting Betty??

 

There actually was/is a Veronica (and Jughead) search in addition to Archie:

http://www.synapse.net/radio/veronica.htm

http://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/veronica.htm

http://www.google.com/search?source...s=GGLG,GGLG:2005-35,GGLG:en&q=veronica+search

 

I only use Google...they're taking over the world!!!

 

As with others here posting,
I was once in love with Altavista.
But they had fallen way behind
in indexing the web and google
gives my company more respect,
so I was gradually weaned.

However, they still have the excellent
feature of being able to use wildcards
in the search, which is highly useful
when searching for part numbers and
companies you can't spell, so it gets
my attention once in a while.

It has joined the evil Yahoo empire
(evil because they don't give me much
traffic), so I don't know what their
reason for existance is. I got 300
referrals from Altavista last month,
compared with 60,000 from Google.

best regards
wiz

 

Did you post this from a cell phone or something?

 

I just find that short lined columns are
easier to read on the screen than
long lined columns.

but
not
too
short

 

I started reading it as if it were a poem, then I realized it didn't rhyme!!!

 

Thanks for the info, I think i was missing it.

 

Well, let me be the first to tell you that you're wrong about that - they're not easier to read - they're just more annoying - a LOT more annoying.

I did the same thing

 

I was sat there trying to work out the tune.

 

lol I was already thinking that's the worst poem I've ever read .

 

I would agree that altavista had best do something soon to refresh their search results. They do not get the most relevant searches when you use them. I quit using them months ago because of this problem.

 

Alright, I will try to rhyme from now on.

wiz