https://www.lycos.com/ is still kicking well.
Having this kind of ridiculous thing in 2023 in a website that pretends to adapt to your location is enough for me to write it off as low-quality trash.
It is interesting what signals we take for credibility, yours being temperature units on a website.
I have no problem with websites that are clearly aimed at users from a specific country, which is often the US. That's fine. But things like this really erode my trust in a site, in my mind it creates a suspicion - if you explicitly show me you can provide services in my country and then get the basics about my country wrong, how can I trust your service works properly here?
Not exactly comparable.
Seems like only yesterday!
Yahoo! bought Overture - the then owners of Altavista - 20 years ago.
I still remember my school Computing teacher introducing the internet and saying that AltaVista was by far and away the best search engine (around 2000 to 2001-ish)
(Last I checked)
The website you found is a Google Custom Search, and it doesn't even tell us which company is running the website.