> how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something? Yes and yes — they had a web crawler*, and you could also submit si

> how did altavista add sites? Did you ask them to add yours? Were they scraping something? Yes and yes — they had a web crawler*, and you could also submit sites. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#:~:text=At%20launch%2C%20the%20service%20had,search%2C%20running%20on%20advanced%20hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista#:~:text=At%20launch%....