Yahoo will send inactive email boxes to new owners

Yahoo will send inactive email boxes to new owners

        Despite recent financial and organizational problems, Yahoo still has one of the largest customer bases in its e-mail service. Obviously, with such a large number of users at the service there is a shortage of beautiful logins. That's why today launched a service Wishlist, which will allow users to leave the application for busy but unused addresses with beautiful and memorable logins. Wishlist System was launched yesterday and runs until August 7. As described in the company, there is one user can submit up to five applications for names that after a period of inactivity, it will be transmitted.

        In Yahoo said that "very significant" number of old email ID may be available, although exact figures on the list does not provide the company. known that in order to account neispolzuemyem was recognized, it must be idle for at least a year. In addition, users will be notified of inactive accounts from Yahoo on their inactive account before the account will be transferred to the new owner. Transfer period will last for 48 hours, during which time the owner can still regain the box.

        At Yahoo expect the first transfers email will be August 15. In a statement, the company said that this move will help to breathe new life into the e-mail system. Independent experts on information security said that the company has chosen a dangerous way to move, because the old owner the "new" box can come any notice or information about logins and passwords from other resources, such as Facebook or Twitter. However, Yahoo promise to solve the problem. The company also said that before passing an old box, Yahoo fully cleanse it and changed the password to login.

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Yahoo disabled the search engine AltaVista

Yahoo disabled the search engine AltaVista

        Internet company Yahoo last night finally sent into the history of search engine AltaVista, considered the only extant Internet search engine, the first wave. Her colleagues, in particular, Ask Jeeves and Lycos, have long been sent into retirement. Recall that the decision to permanently close AltaVista, Yahoo announced in the last month. Yahoo itself is now conducting a campaign of austerity and funds are released from the closure of AltaVista (and a number of other legacy products Yahoo), will focus on the development of more promising for the present project.

       AltaVista appeared in December 1995 and was supported by the most powerful available at the time Computing Server - 64-bit server DEC Alpha. It was the fastest retrieval system that could handle millions of searches per day. AltaVista An important innovation was the inclusion of a natural language search. Users can print a phrase or question and get an intelligent response. As a first approximation, developed by AltaVista Technology AltaVista was sold to Digital Equipment Corporation. Now known search engine, significantly enhanced by specialists DEC, became available to users in November 1995.

        In 1998, the search engine was bought out by a corporation Compaq, which has spent a lot of time and effort to seek out opportunities to make AltaVista profitable project. At the same time address the search engine remained the same - altavista.digital.com. A set in the address bar altavista.com led to getting on the website of the company AltaVista Technology. As a result, search engine prominence has led to a huge influx of visitors to the site AltaVista Technology and the loss of potential users of the search engine. As a result, the domain was bought by Compaq altavista.com for 3.35 million dollars in August 1998 (the largest deal of its kind at the time). Despite this, Compaq and failed to profit from the search engine.

       Therefore, in June 1999, negotiations began Compaq Corporation and CMGI the formation of a network of strategic alliance in which the AltaVista was sold to CMGI. August 19, 1999 it was announced the acquisition of Compaq Corporation CMGI at 83% of AltaVista. In February 2003, AltaVista was bought by Overture Services, Inc., which in July 2003 was acquired by Yahoo. Since May 2011, moved to the AltaVista search technology Yahoo. One of the first search engine AltaVista gave a short name ( http://av.com ), has created a "lightweight" title page without ads and external links.

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