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

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

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   Jan 4, 2021 · In fact, that was the reason AltaVista existed in the first place: The person who came up with the idea, Paul Flaherty, had been tasked with showing off the power of a new line of DEC computers ...

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4. 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.

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

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   Jun 28, 2013 · The Amazing AltaVista. You appeared on the search engine scene in December 1995. You made us go “woah” when you arrived. You did that by indexing around 20 million web pages, at a time when ...

6. 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 · In 2000, only 7% of web users searched on Google, vs. 18% using AltaVista. While AltaVista diversified into new offerings like shopping, a web directory and free email, Google focused on building a better search engine in its early days. By 2004, Google attracted 35% of web searchers. In 2003, AltaVista sold itself to Overture Networks for $140 ...

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

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   Jul 9, 2013 · But now after 18 years, the pioneering search engine is just a memory. Owner Yahoo on Monday officially killed off AltaVista, which was once one of the Web's most popular search engines. If you ...

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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.

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   Who owns Altavista?

   • 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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   Is Altavista better than Google?

   • In 2000, only 7% of web users searched on Google, vs. 18% using AltaVista. While AltaVista diversified into new offerings like shopping, a web directory and free email, Google focused on building a better search engine in its early days. By 2004, Google attracted 35% of web searchers.

   The Rise and Fall of AltaVista: A Look at a 90s Web Pioneer

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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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9. www.websearchworkshop.co.uk › altavista_historyAltaVista: A brief history of the AltaVista search engine

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   AltaVista, which means "a view from above", was one of the first major search tools to appear on the web. Unfortunately it lost significant market share from its peak years at the end of the 90's, so that now AltaVista remains a minor search engine and uses the search index results from Yahoo. In the spring of 1995, scientists at Digital ...