On 29 Nov 00 at 7:03, Or wrote:
>>There's away to work around this for now. Use the "secret" AltaVista
>>text-mode.
>>
>>Instead of going to http://www.altavista.com , go to:
>>
>>http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?text
>>
>>You will be represented with a "simplified" version of altavista
>>with less pictures and all. (They started to push advertisment there,
>>though, after they found out that many used to use that mode to escape
>>the ads..)
>>
>>Unfortunatly, if you want to use the "extended" services like Altavista mail
>>and "media search", you'll have to use the normal version.. when you use it,
>>try to browse with images turned off. May help.
>>
>>In the worse case, just change to Google. ;)
>>http://www.google.com
Give AltaVista's Raging.com search engine a try. No ads and only one
image so it is fast even with images loading. It is at:
http://www.raging.com
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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