How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss
What drew me to AltaVista was that it gave me results that didn&#x27;t exist elsewhere. It took some boolean gymnastics to get precise results, or going a few pages deep, but stuff, if it existed, was findable.<p>I almost wish there were less precise and more obscure options out there today. A search engine that purposefully didn&#x27;t index mainstream news, social media, nor shopping&#x2F;product sites.