The Other Search Engines

**Jordan5815** · 02-03-2006, 01:20 AM

MY favorite search engine is Altavista i remember when that used to be one of the best now no one ever talks about it? Why is that. I have found so much stuff on altavista. If you have never heard of it check it out
http://AltaVista.com Enjoy!

**chrishirst** · 02-03-2006, 04:13 AM

Bought by Overture, who are now owned by Yahoo

**Jordan5815** · 02-03-2006, 10:54 AM

AltaVista Owns yahoo tho that makes me mad

**chrishirst** · 02-04-2006, 05:32 AM

Errrr No

Yahoo own AltaVista

**kline11** · 02-07-2006, 01:04 PM

AltaVista is now just a money maker. I remember when I recieived an email about a URL I had in AltaVista about charging me per click to remain listed. Of course I said NO and they dumped the URL (which was originally a paid inclusion). Then I received an email about them getting sued for this and I received a part of the money back in the claim. They have been like Overture ever since.

**Jordan5815** · 02-07-2006, 05:31 PM

What im saying is Altavista Was always a better search engine then yahoo i guess before yahoo bought it. Altavista was the best

**click2britain** · 02-16-2006, 06:03 AM

Hi,

Also, www.alltheweb.com also owned by yahoo as well

**chrishirst** · 02-16-2006, 08:11 AM

Yep .

**martcoug** · 03-28-2006, 04:49 AM

Yeah I personally used to use altavista a lot... well about 5 years ago!

I must admit I have never used yahoo for searching... or msn... has always been google and before that Ask.com

**Kane Hill** · 04-03-2006, 12:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by martcoug

Yeah I personally used to use altavista a lot... well about 5 years ago!

I must admit I have never used yahoo for searching... or msn... has always been google and before that Ask.com

Yeah, it seems about 5 years ago is when quit using other search engines and went straight to google. And sometimes I wonder why I us it so much. Whenever I am in real need of something it is a crap load of ebay links on ever results page.

**mxrider** · 04-07-2006, 04:18 PM

lol.. well id faded out with Gooogle and Yahoo coming on so strong.. then excite was bought out too. try metacrawler... its the best search engine available

**mxrider** · 04-07-2006, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by click2britain

Hi,

Also, www.alltheweb.com also owned by yahoo as well

this is true.. your very well read!

**stOx** · 04-09-2006, 12:46 AM

I still use altavista for searching for media,.

**ashish** · 04-11-2006, 03:41 AM

i think my first search was on askjeeves.com.. this was wayyy back in 1998-99, did try yahoo and msn for a bit but i found the result pages too cluttered... after that i think i skipped directly to google....

**3pointRoss** · 04-11-2006, 10:22 PM

Yeah, google definitley took over most the share of most of the search engine market.

Some other search engines I used to use

infoseek
lycos
webcrawler

**tantantin** · 04-12-2006, 07:35 PM

I still use Alta Vista for search too.

**BusinessNeedz** · 04-13-2006, 06:23 AM

I remeber when Altavista was the Google of the Internet. As with all Search Engines i'm not sure how long Google will be King.

**ashish** · 04-17-2006, 10:53 PM

that is true, however i was reading somewhere that google has recently acquired a different algo that will help make searches better. you can read more about it here http://www.physorg.com/news6255.html