The Altavista search engine was launched in september 1995, so naturally people have written a lot about it.

I remember another search engine that was rather cool, ftpsearch.ntnu.no. It had hardware accelerated search!

https://web.archive.org/web/19961220145640/http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/search-info/ms160se.html

https://web.archive.org/web/19961220145707/http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/search-info/ms160se-usage.html