Yahoo! Search
Search results
The search engine that helps you find exactly what you're looking for. Find the most relevant information, video, images, and answers from all across the Web.
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.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
Jan 4, 2021 · Why you can’t find the groundbreaking search engine AltaVista on the web anymore. Friends don’t let friends visit Digital.com without knowing the truth.
Jun 28, 2013 · Postscript: And now AltaVista is officially gone. See our follow-up story, AltaVista Officially Closes — What Will Pawnee Do!
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.
Thanks to high-performance hardware, AltaVista was able to perform a quick full-text search across a wide range of websites. In 1997, the first free online translator Babel Fish became part of AltaVista.
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.
Jul 1, 2013 · AltaVista, once the most advanced and comprehensive search engine on the Web, is just days away from its last breath. Yes, like you, I thought AltaVista had been extinguished years ago, but...
AltaVista was the most popular web search engine before Google. Although its user base grew like wildfire, AltaVista did not thrive under ailing computer maker DEC.
