I don't know about that. In my recollection, AltaVista was not that bad, and I switched to Google mostly because the AltaVista search field was getting harder a

I don't know about that. In my recollection, AltaVista was not that bad, and I switched to Google mostly because the AltaVista search field was getting harder and harder to find among all the ads. A few years earlier, I switched to AltaVista from Lycos for pretty much the same reason. A good thing that Google is too smart to crowd out organic search results with more and more paid results.</s>