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Exactly. There's a reason I switched from altavista to google back in the late nineties. I'm sure altavista was guided by various metrics too, but those weren'
by imron 11y ago
Exactly. There's a reason I switched from altavista to google back in the late nineties.
I'm sure altavista was guided by various metrics too, but those weren't the metrics that I as a search user found important.
- rsync 11y agoIt's odd you would say that because, looking back, no search engine has ever been more precise or feature filled than altavista was. You could do very complex boolean logic searches with multiple, nested (()) and "" ... As opposed to google where even the "allinsite:" tag does not even function properly anymore, and where half of your search results will not even contain your search terms. I really miss altavista, actually ...
- imron 11y agoI don't miss scrolling past a page of ads before getting to search results. You are right that Google deciding to 'helpfully' remove terms from my search query is frustrating.