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Jan 4, 2021 · AltaVista was one of the first major search engines on the web, launched by DEC in 1995 to showcase its Alpha processor. Learn how it became a pioneer in web search, but also a victim of its own limitations and the rise of Google.
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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.
Dec 15, 2015 · 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. Wired magazine recalled the gee-whiz vibe in July 2013 when Alta Vista, by then a mostly forgotten product of Yahoo, was about to be put to rest.
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.
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. True, its name never made it into any dictionaries as...
