Since when could you search for videos on Alta Vista?

Sure but did you ask Jeeves? Did you check the dog pile? What did lycos say?

That was back when you could engineer a search prompt to get relevant results… a pre-ai memory there

I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on “Quake III news” or “Subaru Impreza owners club” or such like.

SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything’s just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.

wasnt there a pirate search engine that was a typo of that?

Why does everyone in this town use AltaVista?

Excite was my go-to in the early Internet days…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UGtlUMMkOU

I make bangers, not anthems
Leave that to The Artful Dodger
The broad-shouldered fifty-one percent shareholder

You won’t find us on Alta Vista

Cult classic, not bestseller