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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 · 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.
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.
Jun 28, 2013 · Postscript: And now AltaVista is officially gone. See our follow-up story, AltaVista Officially Closes — What Will Pawnee Do!
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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 · 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 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...
Dec 15, 2015 · That’s because Google didn’t even exist when you were ascendant. That’s also because you help paved some of the way for Google.”. Alta Vista was released when the Web was entering mainstream consciousness, an emergence examined in my latest book, 1995: The Year the Future Began.
Jul 3, 2013 · So AltaVista becomes the latest victim of the fickle world of the internet. Parent company Yahoo! has unceremoniously consigned it to the ever-expanding graveyard for the faded celebrities of the...
