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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.
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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.
Jul 9, 2013 · Owner Yahoo on Monday officially killed off AltaVista, which was once one of the Web's most popular search engines. If you visit the site now, it will redirects to Yahoo's own search page.
Nov 23, 2023 · AltaVista used relevance and keywords to rank its search results. But Google was working on a system called PageRank that weighed results based on authority. In 2000, only 7% of web users searched on Google, vs. 18% using AltaVista.
Dec 15, 2020 · It was the go-to search engine of the early Web, and it was launched on this date in 1995. 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.
