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Have AltaVista, Google lost their way?

Megaportal AltaVista launches a clean, meansearch machine that looks a lot like Google, while Google adds advertising to its search pages. If you take a closer look under the hood, will you find the same search engines?

Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor May 10, 2000 at 5:00 p.m. PT

Megaportal AltaVista launches a clean, mean search machine that looks a lot like Google, while Google adds advertising to its search pages. If you take a closer look under the hood, will you find the same search engines? Full story. -- Marilynn Wheeler, ZDNet News

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