Maybe I didn't know about Alta Vista at the time, I can't remember the search engines I was using back then, but what I remember is that every single search was returning thousands of porn results.
Google was a revelation, it actually found things !
Google was a revelation, it actually found things !
And, AltaVista actually showed you a clustermap of results keywords that you could refine.
So, if you typed in "python" you would see a clustermap of results that included a bunch of herpetology in that cluster and a bunch of computer science in that cluster, etc.
I still miss that.
I think they should avoid using this as their tech demo.
Not being as capable as a 15 year old search engine running on significantly less powerful hardware is kind of embarrassing.