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

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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. theconversation.com › so-farewell-then-altavistaSo farewell then, AltaVista, we hardly knew ye - The Conversation

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   Jul 3, 2013 · AltaVista was considered a powerhouse of a search engine when it arrived on the scene in 1995 and soon attracted 80 million hits per day.

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4. www.searchenginewatch.com › 2003/03/04 › where-areWhere Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved

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   Mar 4, 2003 · AltaVista, the Google of its day, is now to be gobbled up by Overture. It’s a famous name that’s seen better days. But AltaVista’s not the only major search player to have faded, as years have gone by.

5. 1995blog.com › 2020/12/15 › looking-back-25-years-toLooking back 25 years: Alta Vista and ‘high-speed’ search for ...

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   Dec 15, 2020 · The pioneer was Alta Vista, and its technology of using spiders to crawl and index the Web was an element of the gee-whiz marveling that sometimes greeted the unfolding digital landscape 25 years ago.

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

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   Jan 4, 2021 · Long story short, this historically important internet domain name—which hosted one of the first popular search engines—is now being used to launder some random company’s search engine ...

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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 a good search engine?

   • It was that good. AltaVista offered a full-text search engine of the entire web. It wasn’t until AltaVista started posting a count of the number of pages in its search index that we knew how large the web truly was. And when they shared how many pages its crawler found, it was significantly more pages than we previously thought existed.

   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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   Is Altavista a dead search engine?

   • Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed andhow the new players that are no longer so young are doing. AltaVista, the Google of its day, is now to be gobbled up by Overture. It’s a famous name that’s seen better days. But AltaVista’s not the only major search player to have faded, as years have gone by.

   Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved

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   Is Altavista a verb?

   • AltaVista was considered a powerhouse of a search engine when it arrived on the scene in 1995 and soon attracted 80 million hits per day. True, its name never made it into any dictionaries as a verb but it reigned supreme for many years thanks to its ability to index tens of millions of webpages.

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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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   Nov 2, 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.