"Nah, who needs another search engine?"
The first time I tried Google I did a search for "foo bar" and it returned web pages that <i>only</i> contained the phrase "foo bar", and I promptly deleted my Alta Vista bookmark.  What's funny is that I remember it so vividly, like how someone would remember where they were the day Kennedy was shot.<p>It would be really great if Alta Vista kept their old search engine and search index circa 1999 on-line, so we could periodically remind ourselves what the web used to be like.