Wirt writes:

> I don't know if you noticed it recently, but Compaq has dumped most of its
> ownership of AltaVista. The reasoning was that people were just using it to
> search out other web pages and weren't paying attention to AltaVista or its
> advertisers.

No doubt.  Heck, I was bummed when they removed from "advanced search"
the ability to search only certain domains or domain-name patterns.

--Glenn