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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by davesque on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:26PM (#19173370)
I do seem to recall AV getting flooded with spam --- porn spam to be exact. I remember myself and all the nerd kids in my high school computer lab would joke that you could search for something completely innocuous like "yarn" and always get back at least a couple of porn links.

This of course was also at a time when "whitehouse.com" was a porn site.

Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by scarface74 on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:38PM (#19174498)
It might have been funny if you were in school, but if you were at work that’s a different story.