Remembering raging.com
This has been bugging me for a minute. I remembered a site, 'raging.com,' that was a de-bloated AltaVista service, that took a page from the early Google playbook and offered fast, powerful, text-only searching. Trying to find it circa the 1990s via archive.org found captures of Raging Bull (“Leading the Investor Revolution”), located at www.raging.com , through at least May 11, 2000. And since I also remember visiting that site a lot during those heady dot-com bubble days, I was convinced I was mis-remembering the name of the AltaVista search offering. But, nope, my memory is (at least in this respect) intact, and it wasn’t a fever dream, confirmed when I found this Slashdot comment . As early as May 19, 2000, raging.com brought you to raging search from altavista : raging.com search engine home page By August 15, 2000, it was a redirect to ragingsearch.altavista.com , but still branded “raging.” Looks like that survived until at least early 2005 , but by February 5th of that ...