[bsder]

> remember how terrible search engines used to be?

Um, Altavista was better than Google for a very long time.

And I STILL cry that I can't search and then get a graphical clustermap in order to drill down to what I want. (Yeah, when I search for Python I'm probably not looking for reptiles).

[tinus_hn]

Altavista was completely useless compared to even the first version of Google. You had to prepend + to every search word and even then most of the results were spam or irrelevant.