#altavista — Public Fediverse posts

@n0kovo

Long live #AltaVista!

Ah, cool, gerade #AltaVista gesehen. Weiß zufällig jemand, wo #Lycos und #Yahoo abgeblieben sind 😊?

YO 🤟 I had my first-ever "email address" on this domain ....

#email #altavista #search

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HB8NnOoXQAEkuH3?format=jpg&name=medium

PS: And in almost the same time as Lycos, too.

Search pioneer #AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the #webportal trend
The original fast and clean internet search destination launched on December 15, 1995, with an enormous (for the time) 16 million pages indexed. Within a year of its establishment, it scaled from a day-one workload of handling 300,000 user queries to tens of millions of requests every day.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/search-pioneer-altavistas-star-shone-bright-with-a-clean-and-minimal-ui-30-years-ago-engine-lost-momentum-after-multiple-ownership-changes-and-the-embrace-of-the-web-portal-trend

Tom’s Hardware: Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend. “We’ve already sketched out the explosive but almost accidental success that the youthful AltaVista would see. Its architecture, mixing a web crawler dubbed Scooter and a back-end index server […]

a mood to remember by manyfires

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxiS6sptCi00

#hike #hikes #hiking #hikesof2024 #mtrainier #mtrainiernationalpark #mountrainiernationalpark #mountrainier #pnw #pacificnorthwest #washington #landscape #film #analog #mist #misty #moody #fog #leo #child #childhood #kid #son #boy #hasselblad #hasselblad500cm #mediumformat #square #altavista #deadhorsecreek

@sjvn AltaVista was brilliant, mainly because in the early 90s the internet was full of useful websites. So a search engine did not have to be sophisticated to return relevant results.

No click-bait, few scams just static html and maybe an animated GIF or two. If you were lucky.

#html #gif #altavista

Рунет, морфология и квантовый поиск: куда катится эволюция поисковиков

Когда-то поиск в интернете казался простым: вбил запрос — получил ссылки. Но с годами всё поменялось. Алгоритмы эволюционировали: от tf-idf и PageRank до embedding-моделей и RAG-подхода. В этой статье я разобрал, как поисковики прошли путь от каталогов до ИИ-помощников, и что это значит для нас — технарей.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/minerva_media/articles/939858/

#google_search #yandexru #яндекс #google #altavista #perplexity_ai #chatgpt #ai #гугл #ии

Zum Wochenende: gerührt, nicht geschüttelt

30 Jahre Disruption bei der Internet-Suche. Vom schwarzen Lycos-Hund über Google und darüber hinaus. Wie KI die Internetsuche verändern wird.

#Internet_Suche #Compuserve #AOL #Lycos #Altavista #Yahoo #Google #Künstliche_Intelligenz #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/zum-wochenende-geruehrt-nicht-geschuettelt

Remember when the internet was all about portals? 😂 Ah, '98, when "Do you Yahoo?" was a legitimate question and #AltaVista was considered cutting-edge. Fast forward to 2025, and we're still obsessed with which tech giant is devouring the others—only now it's in 4K. 📺💥
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1998/ #internetnostalgia #techgiants #portals #90sreminiscing #2025tech #HackerNews #ngated

Finally some time to check this out. I'm curious how well it works.
#AltaVista #WeekendProject #shitpost

Hard to find the original, but I love this
#BladeRunner #Gopher #AltaVista

The AltaVista search engine in 1997

#RetroTech #90sComputing #Windows95 #DigitalNostalgia #OldSchoolTech #PCHistory #TechThrowback #NostalgicVibes #1990sTech #AltaVista

Moteurs de recherche : Pourrait-on se passer de Google et Bing ?

Bonjour,

Lorsque que l’on navigue sur internet, on utilise tous un moteur de cherche. Pour beaucoup, il s’agit de celui de Google :

En effet, d’après Statcounter, il est utilisé par près de 88% des personnes en France :

Bing de Microsoft arrive en seconde position avec 5,64%, autant dire que l’écart est énorme.

Il y a une certaine logique à ce que Google soit bien positionné :

1. Il a été lancé en 1998 et fait partie des plus vieux moteurs de recherche, même si ce n’est pas le premier : AltaVista (fermé en 2013) & Lycos ayant démarré en 1994.
2. Il a rapidement montré son efficacité au début écrasant toute la concurrence.
3. Il est le moteur de recherche par défaut de plusieurs navigateurs (Chrome, Safari ou Firefox par exemple).
4. Il est mis en avant au travers d’Android depuis plusieurs années.
5. Il a sa propre indexation, ce qui le rend indépendant.

Ce dernier point est important car bon nombre de moteurs de recherche s’appuient aujourd’hui sur un autre. En réalité, les services faisant cela ne sont pas des moteurs de de recherche à proprement parlé mais plutôt des métamoteurs. Cela veut dire que si le ou les moteurs sur lesquels ils s’appuient tombent, alors les métamoteurs ne sont plus fonctionnels. Un autre danger pourrait venir du fait que les moteurs ayant leur index décident de ne plus afficher les résultats et de les remplacer par du contenu généré via IA.

Dans les métamoteurs, on peut citer Lilo ou Qwant par exemple. Pour ces deux cas, c’est Bing qui fournit les résultats. Pour Qwant, cela est censé changer cette année avec le projet European Search Perspective lancé en association avec Ecosia (un autre métamoteur) pour créer un index Européen.

D’autres comme DuckduckGo sont à mi-chemin entre ces deux modèles et utilisent leur propre Index complété d’un ou plusieurs autres moteurs.

En attendant la concrétisation de ce nouvel index « Européen », quels sont les moteurs de recherches indépendants en dehors de Google et Bing ?

A ma connaissance, il n’y en a que deux si on prend en compte la disponibilité en Français :

1. Mojeek basé au Royaume-Uni et créé en 2004 :

1. Brave Search lancé par Brave Software aux États-Unis en 2021 et indépendant depuis 2023 :

Il y a bien d’autres moteurs de recherche ayant leur propre index comme Yandex (créé en Russie en 1997), Baidu (créé en Chine en 2000) ou encore Naver (créé en Corée du Sud en 1999) mais ils ne proposent pas d’interface en Français, sans parler d’éventuelles autres critiques que l’on pourrait faire à ce sujet.

De ce fait, on peut dire oui sans Google et Bing, on pourrait encore avoir accès à des moteurs de recherche. Maintenant, si on se limite à l’Europe (et non l’UE), il n’y a donc que Mojeek.

Pour finir, vous pouvez regarder la vidéo de Gwên qui m’a inspiré pour creuser également la question et mettre cela par écrit. Elle y rajoute un critère supplémentaire, celui concernant la vie privée ainsi qu’une intervention surprise de Joshua Long (connu comme Josh) pour parler plus en détails de Mojeek :

Bonne recherche 🙂

Autres sources non citées :

• Google — Wikipédia
• AltaVista — Wikipédia
• Mojeek — Wikipédia
• European Search Perspective : Qwant et Ecosia unis pour « un index de recherche européen » – Next
• Naver — Wikipédia
• Yandex — Wikipédia
• Baidu — Wikipédia
• Annonce sur le site de Brave de l’indépendance de leur moteur de recherche (anglais uniquement)

Image de Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

#AltaVista #Bing #Brave #Ecosia #EuropeanSearchPerspective #Google #Lycos #Mojeek #Qwant

Search Engine Land: Bing pushes ad-heavy search results with 7+ sponsored listings. “Microsoft Bing appears to be testing an aggressive new ad display format that dramatically reduces organic search visibility in favor of sponsored content.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/search-engine-land-bing-pushes-ad-heavy-search-results-with-7-sponsored-listings/

Intenet search reminds me more and more of the end of #AltaVista. Even (or especially) when you were searching for something specific, search results became more and more polluted. If you were lucky you would find something meaningful on page 5. But quite often you would give up and started playing with exclusion

Very frustrating.

I just discovered Old'aVista.

https://oldavista.com/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageweb #altavista #searchengines #nostalgia #archive #computinghistory

@overholt Ever since AltaVista died, all I ever wanted was a Boolean search of every damn website in the database. Is that too much to ask?

Apparently, yes, that's too much to ask.

#Search #Boolean #BooleanSearch #AltaVista #Google #WebSearch #Web #Internet

Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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#Google force-added #AI to my searches. I can't disable it easily (no setting available). I spend my time trying to fix #climate change, and having an unwanted energy-heavy extra waste for every search is bad. So I've stopped using #GoogleSearch for now, on mobile and on desktop. Google won't notice, but for me it's as sad as giving up on #AltaVista...

(I hava a degree in AI; I've sold products containing AI; I watch my research colleagues doing good things with AI.)

@rustybrick @johnmu

"The usefulness of #LLMs was always overblown, but unless the AI vendors discover a new kind of maths to fix the problem, they’re about to have an #AltaVistaMoment.
And as the LLM-Optimisation industry (#LLMO) assembles its tools, the utility of existing LLMs will plummet like #AltaVista’s, until the only way out is to either abandon them or invent a completely new and more secure kind of model."
@baldur
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-llm-honeymoon-phase/

@ai6yr I believe #HackerNoon (and maybe the EFF) released a #chromium plug-in that removes SERPs to paywalls in Google, but last I checked it didn't work when using #StartPage or other resources which, sadly, rendered it virtually useless.

Nothing for #Firefox ESR though, and it didn't work well in #Vivaldi when I tried it. Maybe those who ride the MS Windows train have a different experience.

But imagine, instead of having to say "paywall" all of the time, to alert people, we just install tools that completely vaporize sites like the Las Vegas Review Journal and the New York Times, and interdict before their URLs can be displayed in SERPs across any browser or search site?

I guarantee you that no one would miss them. They become immediately irrelevant because they no longer exist to anyone - so their news... Isn't.

Information gathered from the AP Wire and other sources comes from elsewhere instead of those decrepit privacy mining operations, and it's still better up to the minute information than we had when most all of the people were still searching on #Yahoo and #AltaVista.

Sanitized search data and paywall blockers is a great step to initiate for ourselves to break the back of encroaching orwellian dystopia.

I'm interested in hearing about solutions from others that implement or partially achieve these goals to thwart industrial surveillance, and please feel free to boost + sharing is caring, tracking is stealing.

#tallship #paywall #ENG #publishing #data_mining

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Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.

Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?

#bridgerton #netflix #DragRace #Rupaul #ParamountPlus #AllStars9 #NKOTB #StillKids #Babes #MichelleButeau #Movies #Film #Music #NewMusic #RacetoSurviveNewZealand #BillieEilish #Guster #Joepardy #Transformer #animation #Altavista #ChildishGambino #CageTheElephant #NeonPill #Lorcana #Disney #TCG #Games #UrsulasReturn

Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.

Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?

#bridgerton #netflix #DragRace #Rupaul #ParamountPlus #AllStars9 #NKOTB #StillKids #Babes #MichelleButeau #Movies #Film #Music #NewMusic #RacetoSurviveNewZealand #BillieEilish #Guster #Joepardy #Transformer #animation #Altavista #ChildishGambino #CageTheElephant #NeonPill #Lorcana #Disney #TCG #Games #UrsulasReturn

Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.

Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?

#bridgerton #netflix #DragRace #Rupaul #ParamountPlus #AllStars9 #NKOTB #StillKids #Babes #MichelleButeau #Movies #Film #Music #NewMusic #RacetoSurviveNewZealand #BillieEilish #Guster #Joepardy #Transformer #animation #Altavista #ChildishGambino #CageTheElephant #NeonPill #Lorcana #Disney #TCG #Games #UrsulasReturn

Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.

Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?

#bridgerton #netflix #DragRace #Rupaul #ParamountPlus #AllStars9 #NKOTB #StillKids #Babes #MichelleButeau #Movies #Film #Music #NewMusic #RacetoSurviveNewZealand #BillieEilish #Guster #Joepardy #Transformer #animation #Altavista #ChildishGambino #CageTheElephant #NeonPill #Lorcana #Disney #TCG #Games #UrsulasReturn

Time for Culture Club, where our panel shares the movies, music, TV shows, books and more they’re loving this week.

Have you seen/heard/read any of the picks in the checklist?

#bridgerton #netflix #DragRace #Rupaul #ParamountPlus #AllStars9 #NKOTB #StillKids #Babes #MichelleButeau #Movies #Film #Music #NewMusic #RacetoSurviveNewZealand #BillieEilish #Guster #Joepardy #Transformer #animation #Altavista #ChildishGambino #CageTheElephant #NeonPill #Lorcana #Disney #TCG #Games #UrsulasReturn

@bobkmertz
1. Google is now far from being the best;
2. Bring back #babelfish and/or #altavista;
3. Meanwhile, grateful we have #duckduckgo ☺️

Old'aVista, a Guide to the Old Internet
https://oldavista.com/
#ycombinator #search #altavista #geocities #xoom #angelfire #aol #hpg_com_br #vila_bol_com_br #kit_net #tripod #lycos #fortunecity #home_page

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

@txgx42 "Ausgedehnen Hoch Dichte"? Did they use a prerelease of the #Altavista #Babelfish for this translation?
("Ausgedehnen" would be in "perfect infinitive" form, if such a thing existed; amazingly, Google still lists 1560 hits on an inexistant word)

BTW: "Ausgedehnt hohe Dichte" or "Erweiterte hohe Dichte" would be better translations.

@dwnews_bot We owe a debt to Tim Berners-Lee and #CERN for giving birth to #www as we know it still! Merci beaucoup!
Btw, who remembers #altavista and #babelfish? #timbernerslee #internet #breakupBigTech

Anyone else obsessively switching search engines lately? I was a #DuckDuckGo user for many years, then switched to #Brave Search for a while. Went back to DDG, then discovered You.com. #YouChat became available and works quite well, but then I got access to #Bing Chat. I tried #Neeva for a bit, but it didn't really stick. Now, Brave has it's new Summarizer tool and there are extensions to add #ChatGPT results alongside just about any chat service.

Whew. Maybe I'll just go back to #AltaVista.

Que veloz que sería todo si volvieramos a ella ahora, cuando navegar era mismo navegar por miles de sitios hechos por gente real #internet #archive #nostalgia #recuerdos #retro #90s #altavista #yahoo #lycos #geocities

#Mastodon: Well, I have only been here for three days, but it feels very much like 1994 all over again: That first hesitant email, those first adventurous clicks on pre-#Google internet search engines. Remember grappling with these?

#WebCrawler
#Lycos
#AltaVista
#Excite
#Dogpile
#AskJeeves
#JumpStation

Let's be patient, progress may be happening before our eyes, again!