AltaVista
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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. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site.
Key facts
- Website.name
- AltaVista
- Website.logo
- Altavista logo.png
- Website.logo_size
- 120
- Website.location_city
- Palo Alto, California
- Website.location_country
- U.S.
- Website.screenshot
- Altavista-1999.png
- Website.screenshot_size
- 300px
- Website.caption
- Top: 2002–2013 AltaVista logoBottom: The AltaVista web portal in 1999
- Website.website_type
- Search engine
- Website.language
- Multilingual
- Website.advertising
- Yes
- Website.registration
- No
- Website.current_status
- Defunct ()
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto
- Owned by
- Digital Equipment Corporation
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- date of official opening
- 1995-12-15
- inception
- 1994-00-00
- location of formation
- Palo Alto
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2013-07-08
- name in kana
- アルタビスタ
- language of work or name
- English language
- Alexa rank
- 570073
- discoverer or inventor
- Paul Flaherty
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origins
- Popularity
- Technology
- Query format
- Query log
- Business transactions
- Free services
- First CAPTCHA system
- Shutdown
- See also
- References
- External links
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. On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site.
== Etymology == The word "AltaVista" is formed from the words for "high view" or "upper view" in Spanish (alta + vista); thus, it colloquially translates to "overview".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “AltaVista” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.