[dingaling]

> Altavista had exactly the same function as google

I disagree, Alta Vista had excellent an excellent search UI with Boolean logic. Google discarded that because it thought it 'knew better' in terms of Page Rank.

A-V could be fine-tuned to find a page with exactly the search terms, Google just gave fuzzy approximations from a very large search set.

[fidotron]

> I disagree, Alta Vista had excellent an excellent search UI with Boolean logic. Google discarded that because it thought it 'knew better' in terms of Page Rank.

This is precisely what all the extreme LLM haters have memory holed.