That's absolutely correct. AltaVista wasn't slow (until they filled their page with garbage; they were originally as minimal as Google), but you'd have to hunt

That's absolutely correct. AltaVista wasn't slow (until they filled their page with garbage; they were originally as minimal as Google), but you'd have to hunt through pages and pages and pages of results. Google usually found what you were looking for right away. This is what I remember from 1999 - I had been using AltaVista as my primary search engine for several years, and once I found Google I started using it almost exclusively because it was so much better.