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Jun 28, 2013 · AltaVista from June 2013, shortly before its death. Postscript: And now AltaVista is officially gone. See our follow-up story, AltaVista Officially Closes — What Will Pawnee Do!
Jul 9, 2013 · 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. Palo...
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.
In the Digital Equipment Corporation research laboratories, a team of researchers led by Louise Monier and Michael Burrows created the AltaVista search engine. Thanks to high-performance hardware, AltaVista was able to perform a quick full-text search across a wide range of websites.
AltaVista was the most popular web search engine before Google. Although its user base grew like wildfire, AltaVista did not thrive under ailing computer maker DEC.
Jul 8, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) — Once up on a time, there was a popular search engine called AltaVista. It lives no more. On Monday, its owner Yahoo Inc. sent AltaVista.com to the Internet graveyard to rest alongside order-almost-anything venture Kozmo.com and the butler from Ask Jeeves.
Jul 1, 2013 · AltaVista was one of the first search engines to index significant amounts of web content and proved hugely popular before Google debuted. Current owner Yahoo announced its demise in a blogpost ...
