I loved Altavista. The thinking had to be done by the user, but uf you understood the process, it was a precise and accurate tool. Before it got sold around, of

I loved Altavista. The thinking had to be done by the user, but uf you understood the process, it was a precise and accurate tool. Before it got sold around, of course. I'd construct searches along the lines of: (Word OR Word) AND (Word NEAR Word) And get great results. Of course, the Web is way to big and Javascript-y for that now.