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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.
Jan 4, 2021 · Founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957, the two former MIT researchers leveraged venture capital to build computers for industry—and found success by focusing on relatively small...
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Nov 2, 2023 · 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 million.
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.
Sep 1, 2024 · Launched in 1995, at a time when the World Wide Web was still a novelty, AltaVista quickly became the go-to search engine for millions of users around the world. Its advanced search capabilities, lightning-fast results, and comprehensive index of web pages set it apart from the competition and helped to define the future of online search.
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Jul 12, 2024 · AltaVista was born out of the research labs of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the mid-1990s. The concept originated from the need to harness the power of DEC's supercomputers to create a tool that could efficiently index and search the internet.
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Dec 15, 2023 · AltaVista Launches. December 15, 1995. Developed by researchers at Digital Equipment Research Laboratories, the AltaVista search engine is launched. It was the first world wide web search service to gain significant popularity.
