True. AltaVista was certainly good enough for me. I distinctly remember when someone recommended Google to me. I tried it and was unimpressed. They had a sp

True. AltaVista was certainly good enough for me. I distinctly remember when someone recommended Google to me. I tried it and was unimpressed. They had a sparse index.html (which has served them well over the years) but other than that, AltaVista was still better. AltaVista was the first real search engine and I still think it was the best.