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The minimalistic layout is a pleasure to use compared to AltaVista's bloated UI.

• kps 8y ago
  Altavista was great when its raison d'etre was to show off the Alpha. (I still miss proper boolean queries.)
  • scruffyherder 8y ago
    There is a hack to have the desktop Altavista search tool index gopher... https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for-gopher https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/building-a-search-engine-for... I've done it with a static set of data, the UTZoo Usenet data... http://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com http://altavista.superglobalmegacorp.com Shame it died on the vine, distributed, and curated search was a powerful tool in the days of Veronica and Archie
    • nl 8y ago
      istributed, and curated search was a powerful tool in the days of Veronica and Archie No it wasn't. I'm old enough to have (tried to) use it, and it was terrible. It was usually quicker and got better results to manually connect to FTP sites, and run directory listing on likely directories untily ou found what you were looking for.
      • scruffyherder 8y ago
        I'm old enough to have used it as well, and was able to find things with it..