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.