Raging Search Gone Too

And now Raging Search, AltaVista's no-ad and business solutions demonstration front-end, is gone as well. Launched almost a full year ago (May 4, 2000), it has now gone the way of Infoseek, Inference Find, DejaNews, and the other vanishing search engines. A note at the former site states:

Dear Raging Search user,
In our continuing effort to provide the world's best search experience, we have combined Raging Search with our improved AltaVista Text Search.

The new Text Search provides all of the features of Raging Search, and more:

• Viewable on text-only browsers
• World-class relevancy
• Lightning-fast performance
• News related to your query

We hope you enjoy AltaVista Text Search.