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   What is an Altavista?

   • Readers who are 18 years old and younger will probably ask, “What’s an AltaVista?” In short, it was one of the first and most successful search engines. It was founded in 1995 by Digital Equipment Corporation. In 1995, when AltaVista was released, the search engine was dubbed a “super spider” for its ability to crawl Web pages.

   AltaVista. What's That? - The New York Times

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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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   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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   Why is Altavista so popular?

   • AltaVista was launched in 1995 when search engines generally did a poor job of logging information on the web's rapidly growing population of sites. The search engine was popular because it had indexed about 20 million webpages, far more than any rival at the time.

   Yahoo to shut down pioneering AltaVista search site - BBC News

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   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.

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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5. 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.

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 · 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.

7. www.engadget.com › 2018/09/25-google-ask-jeevesThe Google graveyard: Remembering three dead search engines

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   AltaVista. AltaVista was the site best-situated to actually take on Google. Founded in 1995, AltaVista came from researchers in the labs of Digital Equipment Corp. and featured a fast and...

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8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › technology-23127361Yahoo to shut down pioneering AltaVista search site - BBC News

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   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...

9. archive.nytimes.com › 07 › 01AltaVista. What's That? - The New York Times

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   Jul 1, 2013 · Anyone who still uses AltaVista — I’m not sure who that is — should instead go to Yahoo Search, Mr. Rossiter said. Readers who are 18 years old and younger will probably ask, “What’s an...