jdMorgan - 4:35 am on Jan 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Search engines - The more the merrier, IMHO. One of my sites (along with thousands of others) got banned from AV a few years ago, apparently due to a technical glitch, and I was very thankful that there were other search engines to get us through the hard times. If I somehow blunder into a Google penalty tomorrow, I want a lot more backup.

Yeah, AV's pages are still "busy" and the advertising mindset is still there, but it's a whole lot better than last year. I think it's much, much better. I doubt that they can afford to drop all the advertising links right now.

I sure can't complain about stale results in AV any more! - All my pages seem to get refreshed every other day. What seems to be missing is an advertising budget; Has anyone seen any kind of ad for the "New! - Lite!" AltaVista?

Even though they whacked my site, it did come back eventually, and I still have fond memories of AV as "my" first search engine. I hope they make it.

Jim