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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AltaVistaAltaVista - Wikipedia

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   Current status. Defunct (July 8, 2013. ( 2013-07-08) ) [1] AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.

2. www.vice.com › en › articleWhatever Happened to AltaVista, Our First Good Search Engine

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   Jan 4, 2021 · The combined size of the two hard drives that Scooter and Turbo Vista, the machines that ran AltaVista, sported as of early 1996. (As tech legend Bob Metcalfe wrote in InfoWorld at that time, the ...

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3. www.pcmag.com › news › yahoo-bids-farewell-toYahoo Bids Farewell to Vintage Search Engine AltaVista

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   Owner Yahoo on Monday officially killed off AltaVista, which was once one of the Web's most popular search engines. If you visit the site now, it will redirects to Yahoo's own search page.

4. searchengineland.com › altavista-eulogy-165366A Eulogy For AltaVista, The Google Of Its Time

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   Jun 28, 2013 · Goodbye AltaVista.You deserved better than this. Better than the one-sentence send-off Yahoo gave you today, when announcing your July 8 closure date. But then again, you always were the bright ...

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   • Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present) AltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine.

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   What is AltaVista search engine?

   • AltaVista was a search engine as well as a web portal that allowed users to browse the world wide web as well as UseNet. It initially started out as a crawler-based search engine that utilized its own web index to crawl more than 20 million pages. Many search engines at the time were only able to index around one to two million web pages.

   What Happened To AltaVista? Here’s Why The Search Engine Failed

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   When was AltaVista invented?

   • Palo Alto, California-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three years before Google Inc. was founded. Eclipsed by Google in the early 2000s, AltaVista’s star had already faded by the time Yahoo acquired it as part of its $1.7 billion purchase of Overture Services Inc. in July 2003.

   Yahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista | AP News

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   Is Altavista the Google of the era?

   • To borrow from the present, AltaVista was the Google of its era. In 1996, it was arguably the best and most-loved brand on the Web. It presaged many of the current innovations and opportunities in search, from automatic language translation to audio and video search to clustering of results.

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6. productmint.com › what-happened-to-altavistaWhat Happened To AltaVista? Here's Why The Search Engine Failed

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   Dec 16, 2022 · by Viktor Hendelmann. Executive Summary: AltaVista was a search engine as well as a web portal that allowed users to browse the world wide web as well as UseNet. AltaVista failed because of its alternating ownership, due to a failed shift towards becoming a portal, as well as its core search business was eventually overtaken by Google.

7. www.retrotechdreams.com › the-rise-and-fall-ofThe Rise and Fall of AltaVista: A Look at a 90s Web Pioneer

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   Nov 23, 2023 · The Rise and Fall of AltaVista: A Look at a 90s Web Pioneer. At its peak, AltaVista, the web's first full-text searchable database, received 80 million hits a day. And then it was acquired. Retro Alex. Updated on: November 23, 2023.

8. apnews.com › yahoo-shuts-down-internet-relicYahoo shuts down Internet relic AltaVista | AP News

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   Jul 8, 2013 · Palo Alto, California-based AltaVista was introduced in 1995, three years before Google Inc. was founded. Eclipsed by Google in the early 2000s, AltaVista’s star had already faded by the time Yahoo acquired it as part of its $1.7 billion purchase of Overture Services Inc. in July 2003.