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title: Altavista after a long time
date: "2002-03-22T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1387
description: I revisited AltaVista after Google suggested alternative search providers and was surprised to find that their results now closely resemble Google's. It reflects a significant shift in how search engines have standardized their ranking outputs.
keywords: [altavista, google, search engines, web history, search results]
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I searched on [Altavista](http://www.altavista.com) after a long time (oh, for no other reason than the fact that Google said I could also try my searches on Altavista, Lycos, Yahoo, etc.) and I was surprised how much the search results resembled Google's.