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- AltaVista was the first searchable, full-text database on the World Wide Web with a simple interface.
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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.
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.
Dec 15, 2015 · It was the go-to search engine of the early Web, and it was launched 20 years ago today. 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 emergent digital landscape of 1995.
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.
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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Jul 1, 2013 · AltaVista, once the most advanced and comprehensive search engine on the Web, is about to close its URL forever.
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.
