Sorry to be (once again) working against the popular trend but has anyone else noticed that Altavista is a rival search engine to Google!? It’s only based on two experiements, & don’t get me wrong, I’m not an expert, just a ‘user’. First experiement, typed in my full name and compared the results. Second experiment, typed in ‘Caroline Celico’ and looked in images for results. 

On the first test Altavista found pages on me (including the odd ones) which Google did not. On the second Altavista found the getty images of the wedding to Kaka, which Google did not.
Then again (nice phrase that) when I entered my full name in both and searched under images, ‘AV’ came up with a big fat ’0′ while Google found results from my blog. (And most visitors to my blog come via Google).
It’s all kind of amusing when I think that Altavista was the top dog back in 1997, until I was seduced a couple of years later by peer-pressure to go-with-Google. Sorry, it’s my fault for rely on just one search, so I’m using Altavista again – at least as a cross-check vs the almighty Google.
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